num_pages: 227
description: A married couple Reinhardt and Kristine Ris are out for a Sunday walk when they discover the body of a boy and see the figure of a man limping away. They alert the police but not before Reinhardt to Kristines horror kneels down and takes photographs of the dead child with his cell phone. Inspectors Konrad Sejer and Jakob Skarre begin to make inquiries in the little town of Solberglia. But then another boy disappears and an explanation seems more remote than ever. Meanwhile the Riss marriage starts to unravel as Reinhardt becomes obsessed with the tragic events and his own part in them.A riveting portrayal of a communityits insiders its outsiders its fissures and its secretsfrom Norways Queen of Crime Karin Fossum.
language: English
title: The Water's Edge
publisher: Houghton Mifflin