{"id":2318,"date":"2019-11-11T15:03:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T22:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2019-11-11T15:03:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T22:03:06","slug":"the-whisperer-by-karin-fossum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=2318","title":{"rendered":"The Whisperer by Karin Fossum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deeply engrossing but not without flaws\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

An intriguing, in-depth character study of a social misfit who becomes the target of a series of threatening letters. A botched surgery leaves Ragna Riegel with a ragged scar on her neck and only a whisper as a voice. For a single woman, who has no friends or relations and whose estranged son lives in Berlin, Ragna leads a content life as a hard-core hermit until she starts receiving hostile notes in her mailbox. The book is more of a keen psychological study of a person\u2019s loneliness and grief than a regular mystery. Though Fossum has depicted Ragna\u2019s plight with painstaking details and empathy, the narrative becomes tedious at times with Fossum\u2019s unnecessary foray into nitty-gritty of Ragna\u2019s everyday life. Inspector Sejer stays true to his character with his deep understanding of human nature. Different from Fossum\u2019s other Inspector Sejer books, the book will appeal to fans of literary crime fiction.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Whisperer<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

by Karin Fossum<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

Harvill Secker<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Buy now <\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Pub date January 22, 2019<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

ISBN 978-1787300941<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Price $12.06 (USD)<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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  Deeply engrossing but not without flaws\u2026 An intriguing, in-depth character study of a social misfit who becomes the target of a series of threatening letters. A botched surgery leaves Ragna Riegel with a ragged scar on her neck and only a whisper as a voice. For a single woman, who has no friends or relations and whose estranged son lives in Berlin, Ragna leads a content life as a hard-core hermit until she starts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"An Editorial Book Review Website\n\nBook review: The Whisperer by Karin Fossum #bookreview #WritersLife #Author #authors #Kindle #writingcommunity #karinfossum #thewhisperer #mystery #writers","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[91,460,3328,178,2345198,13078,4399196,239430,1008073,856121,309,15817018],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-karin-fossum","tag-mystery","tag-mystery-book-reviews","tag-mystery-series","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-the-whisperer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-Bo","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2322,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}