Pre-Owned I Can See in the Dark (Hardcover) by Karin Fossum

from smik

If you have a loved one in a nursing home, this certainly might make you wonder what motivates the people who work there. Riktor nurses the elderly. That is his speciality. He says he wants to bring something special to their last days. But it isn't the milk of human kindness that flows through h...

from musichick52

The title refers to the character's heightened ability to see in the dark. He is a loner, lives alone, has no friends, sits on a park beach and watches the world go by. He is a loser, repeatedly remarking to himself that he needs to get a woman but does not know how to go about it. He is a tortur...

from rainpebble

I Can See in the Dark by Karin Fossum; (5*) What a brilliant piece of dark and spine tingling narration! This work is narrated by a twisted mind of the worst sort. Riktar, our protagonist, works as a nurse in a home for the aged. He enjoys hurting those who are bedridden and utterly helpless, who...

from ebyrne41

I had been looking forward to reading this latest book from Norway's Karin Fossum, a favourite author of mine. Yet 30, 40 pages in I wasn't sure if I was liking it; but that was to change, and by book's end I can confidently say I thought it as good as her best, and that says something. Why the i...

from knittingmomof3

Karin Fossum is probably best known for her Inspector Konrad Sejer series, and deservedly so, however I am reviewing her standalone book, I Can See In the Dark. Fossum is in true crime writing form in crafting her main character Riktor, by all accounts a loner with no family or ties, except his j...