One Name, Two Games

摘要

In a stark departure from her award-winning Inspector Sejer series (The Water's Edge), Fossum offers insight into the mind and work of a mystery writer. A first-person author, with a line of potential characters waiting at her door, is awakened one night by a man who jumps the line, so anxious is he to have his story told. He is Alvar Eide, who at 42 leads a solitary life working in an art gallery and believes himself to be a good person. Then he falls in love with a painting, priced at a sum that would take all his savings, and befriends a young heroin addict, a skinny girl with translucent skin, who follows him home and insinuates herself into his life, with predictably tragic results.