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Title: The Murder of Harriet Krohn

Author: Karin Fossum

Narrator: Sean Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-14

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Charlo Torp has problems. Hes grieving for his late wife, hes lost his job, and gambling debts have alienated him from his teenage daughter. Desperate, his solution is to rob an elderly woman of her money and silverware. But Harriet Krohn fights back, and Charlo loses control.

Wracked with guilt, Charlo attempts to rebuild his life. But the police are catching up with him, and Inspector Konrad Sejer has never lost a case yet.

Told through the eyes of a killer, The Murder of Harriet Krohn poses the question: how far would you go to turn your life around, and could you live with yourself afterwards?

Members Reviews:

Charliejohn

This began very uninteresting by so much about Carlo...to me it really dragged right from the

Too draggy from the very beginning for me. Others might not feel this way. Too much about Carlos thoughts ..not much like Fossil prior works!!!

It's not my fault

This is different from Karin Fossums' usual books. I missed Detective Sejer - even though he was in the story in the end. This novel is told from the criminals point of view.... everything is not his fault it is "bad luck" , other people, events, etc. "woe is me" kind of attitude. Charlo Torp is the main character - and boy, what a self-inflicted mess he's made of his life. He has gambling issues - not his fault though ;) He owes a lot of money and they are threatening to cut off his fingers if he doesn't pay. He previously lost his job because he embezzled money to pay his gambling debts - they didn't turn him though - just fired him. His wife then died of cancer. His daughter won't talk to him because of the mess he has made. He has an excuse for everything - and lots of blame to pass around. He even blames Harriet Krohn for her murder

There was a little too much ruminating for my taste - but I'm just one person

Extremely disappointed!

This book is advertised as another in the Inspector Sejer Mysteries, but Sejer is only a minor character and a boring one at that. I loved the rest of the Sejer series, but in this one we watch the murder early on and most of the novel is the life of the murderer: his self-justifications and attempts to make up for his crime. I guess this is meant to be a psychological novel. Wish I'd been warned - but now you are. The writing is fine, but I found the novel boring, especially when Sejer finally shows up - page after page of interrogation going over the same things over and over. No mystery here!

NOT SO GOOD AS HER OTHERS

I was a little disappointed with this book compared to her others. Charlo Torp was not a tragic figure but a pathetic man

who would have lived a quiet respectable life if it weren't for his (not so rare) addiction to gambling.

The fact that he was not even a savvy criminal was that he underestimated the things that could go wrong.

He was not a thug, but a man desperate to get his life back on track and spend his days working and admiring

his beautiful daughter as she became an excellent equestrienne Secretly. I had hoped that he would have gotten

away with it. He still would have had to deal with the guilt. But giving him multiple sclerosis was" way out there"

as far as the plot went. I'm still trying to figure that out.

Unusual Approach

Even though the different twist from usual mysteries is interesting, I found it difficult to keep my interest.