A review by cheryl6of8
Black Seconds, by Karin Fossum

4.0

A very well crafted book with tension and interesting characters that kept me second-guessing myself until the very end. Very dark in many ways, this search for a missing young girl and her bicycle and later for the person who killed her. Interlocking characters all with their own darkness inside them, many of whom may have had a hand in the events that happened to that young girl. A man who does not speak except to say "No," his elderly mother who tries to keep him safe from the world and vice versa, the young girl, her mother, her aunt and uncle, her teenaged cousin with the dented car, his drug-dealing mechanic friend who is unnaturally interested in what might have happened to the child. And the detectives, Sejer and Svarre, both with their own secret sorrows and worries. This was my first book featuring Konrad Sejer, but I would gladly read others, because he has an interesting mind and a great level of patience.