The Devil's Light, by Karin Fossum

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The detective novel appears today dispersed between black novels and thrillers, that is, with a component of a certain gore, which is recreated in darkening nuances of the plot.

The own Karin Fossum He has taken a brazen look at this trend in this fourth installment for his star inspector Konrad Sejer. This Swedish author, the equivalent of our Dolores Redondo, He had been captivating us with each of the new investigations of the aforementioned Inspector Sejer, and here he presents his most rugged and bizarre case.

There is something of a possible fatal destiny in coincidences, an aroma of coincidence as a possible turning point towards luck or the worst of misfortunes. From there this story is born.

Two boys commit a robbery. They are not two consummate criminals, although they do haunt juvenile delinquency far too often. Until that new day when they decide to steal again, in search of quick money ...

The theft does not go well at all, they manage to get hold of a woman's purse, without realizing in their mad escape that they have caused a fatal accident in which the son of the owner of the purse ends up dying. The sum of fatalities had only just unfolded like that dark fate that looms unexpectedly once you surrender to evil.

Still possessed by that strange sense of triumphant crime, Andreas and Zipp don't end the day without looking for a new victim. Coincidence or not, Irma, an old woman passes through their lives as a perfect target. They follow her home under the complicity of the night. Andreas prepares to raid the house of the lady, Zipp anxiously awaits his return with the new loot.

And so he stayed, waiting….

Konrad Sejer, in his role as inspector, knows of both cases, whose only temporal coincidence does not arouse in him the slightest suspicion. Perhaps if Konrad meditated on coincidences, on the chains that evil links once the game started, he could intuit that something strange links both cases.

Only the reader has the privilege of knowing that casual link that leads to any house, where a peaceful old lady lives, with her quiet life of television, crocheting and her visits to tidy up the basement.

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