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‘The Norwegian Chandler’ Jo Nesbø
‘One of my very favourite Scandinavian authors’ Ian Rankin
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A dramatic, poetic and page-turning thriller from Norway’s most dazzling crime writer.
On a frosty January day in Bergen, Private Detective Varg Veum is visited by a prostitute. Her friend Margrethe has disappeared and hasn’t been seen for days. Before her disappearance, something had unsettled her: she’d turned away a customer and returned to the neighbourhood in terror. Shortly after taking the case, Veum is confronted with a brutal, uneasy reality. He soon finds the first body – and it won’t be the last either. His investigation leads him into a dark subculture where corrupted idealism has had deadly consequences.
Dark secrets lurk everywhere, as the murky pattern of wounded people, worm-eaten lives, and hearts long grown cold proves deadly . . . for someone.
Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett
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Reviews
The Varg Veum series stands alongside Connelly, Camilleri and others, who are among the very best modern exponents of the poetic yet tough detective story with strong, classic plots; a social conscience; and perfect pitch in terms of a sense of place'
Undoubtedly, one of the finest Nordic novelists in the tradition of such masters as Henning Mankell
An upmarket Philip Marlowe
Among the most popular Norwegian crime writers
In the best tradition of sleuthery