Calling Out For You
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	Release Date	2009-12-23
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Contemporary  Series  Women Sleuths  General  Police Procedurals  Suspense  Kindle Books  Contemporary Fiction
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Description
Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride is due to join him, he is called to the hospital to his sister's bedside. The local taxi driver sent instead to meet the bride at the airport returns not including her. Then the town is shocked by the news of an Indian woman found bludgeoned to death in a nearby meadow. Inspector Sejer and his colleague Skarre head the murder inquiry, cross-examining the townsfolk and planting seeds of suspicion in a community which has always believed itself to be neat, safe and trusting. For what can only have been an unpremeditated and motiveless act of violence, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.
Customer Reviews
Disappointing Ending   2010-07-26
By G. Messersmith (Tennessee)
First let me say I loved this book until the very end where I was very let down. It's about a murder in a small Norway town - a town where everyone knows everyone else and their parents and knows everyone else's business. Just recently Gunder Jomann a fifty-something man who sells agriculture machinery goes on vacation to India to find a wife and find a wife he does. He actually meets his soulmate while there. They marry in India and Gunder returns home to tie up some loose ends before Poona (his wife) flies to Norway to be with him. Meanwhile a body is discovered in a field and her face has been so brutually beaten that she is unrecognizable. All the police know is that she is brown skinned and wearing gold bangles and gold sandals. They set out to find out who she is. All the while Gunder is wondering where Poona is. She was not at the airport and she has not arrived at his house. In fact he has not heard from her at all, but he refuses to believe that she is the body found in the field. Inspector Konrad Sejer and his assistant Jacob Skarre are investigating the murder and they put two and two together. There are plenty of suspects to pick from - the bar owner Einar Sunde who is going through martial problems and has secrets from everyone else to the young, immature bodybuilder Goran Seter who is having female problems. The police must piece together the evidence and what little they have learned from the town's residents to arrest someone for the murder of Poona. The book is a beautiful love story and well told but without giving too much away the ending is just miserable. It leaves so many loose ends that I just wasn't comfortable with the ending. If the rest of Fossum's books are written the same way I won't be reading any of them.
We CAN see who the murderer is!   2010-07-25
By Carol Siegel
When I first finished reading the book, I felt the same way many of the other reviewers apparently do: that we had been cheated of a conclusion. However, on reflection it became clear to me that we were given the clues to know who the murderer was. The confession must be understood to be honest because if he did not encounter her on the road there is absolutely no way he could have known that Poona was not carrying her suitcase and was carrying the yellow bag shaped like a banana. And how could anyone account for the residue from his weight-lifting regimen on her clothing? Although another of the nasty cafe patrons boasts that he could have been the murderer, that could only have been true if he had been in cahoots with the arrested man, which we never get the slightest hint would have been possible. I used to love to stop reading mysteries at the third to last chapter's ending in order to try to figure them out myself before going on reading. I was right about half the time. But after a lifetime of using them as distracting entertainment, I find I can solve any mystery to which we are given clues by the middle of the book, if not sooner. This makes the final tying up of loose ends tedious for me. I already know it all. But here Fossum's refusal to spell it all out made me think about the clues again and really play detective. That was fun! If only Black Seconds were as good. I figured out the entire plot well before I was halfway through and there wasn't a single surprise. And what's up with creating a psychopathic murderer after one of the detectives in the previous book and then never saying a word about her in this one? Fossum is good at characterization, but needs to put more effort into plotting.
This dog won't hunt   2010-06-15
By T. J. Reilly (Phoenix AZ USA)
A literary shaggy dog story. A slow, plodding tale that, in the end, showed minimal real police work was responsible for the outcome. This author surely must have had better work to justify the praise she has received, and comparing her to Mankill and the other great Scandinavian mystery writers does them a disservice.
Premature Ending   2010-05-15
By Stephen Smerker (Beaumont, CA United States)
I was enjoying this book until the sudden ending. The writing was excellent. The story was good. Then the story suddenly ended with nothing settled. I felt like I wasted my time, and I will not read anymore of this author's books. I guess I am just not into contemporary ambiguity.
The story is left hanging--the author stopped writing   2010-03-31
By Sherry Danielson (Richland, WA USA)
This is the first detective novel I have ever read in which the author stops writing before she has finished the book. There are many unanswered questions that must not remain unanswered in a police procedural. It is obvious that the wrong guy is in custody and the assistant detective's life is in danger from the principal witness who must be a nut case. And the murder weapon could be that bowling ball that Mode owns. I actually looked to see if there are pages missing but not the case. What the hell is wrong with Karin Fossum? And why so many positive reviews--have you guys lost all your standards? This book needs to go back to the author for a rewrite.