Nominated to the Bokseller’s Award 2014
Journalist Kajsa Coren starts looking into the murdered woman’s past. Her father was a preacher in a conservative chapel environment. The woman lived alone and never talked to anyone. She spent her days sitting in front of the window, watching her neighbours and learning a great deal about a lot of people.
The police have a lot of leads, but struggle to solve the cases. Did the same person kill both father and daughter? Did the woman see something from her look-out post which resulted in her death?
When a young girl in a neighbouring house disappears, the police increase their efforts, and the people’s uneasiness increases as a storm approaches from the sea.
5 out of 6 Stars.
“Disturbing on a brutish reality. The Reader is driven from side to side.” Tvedestrandsposten
