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Big Sister

Big Sister
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen, Don Bartlett (translator)
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Varg Veum #18 Varg Veum receives a surprise visit in his office. A woman introduces herself as his half-sister, and she has a job for him. Her god-daughter, a 19-year-old trainee nurse from Haugesund, moved from her bedsit in...

Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen, Don Bartlett (translator)
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

Exploring his own dark memories may be the only way to find a killer When Bergen PI Varg Veum finds himself at the funeral of a former classmate on a sleet-grey December afternoon, he’s unexpectedly reunited with his old...

We Shall Inherit The Wind

We Shall Inherit The Wind
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen
  • Location(s): Bergen, Norway
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1990s

1998. Varg Veum sits by the hospital bedside of his long-term girlfriend Karin, whose life-threatening injuries provide a deeply painful reminder of the mistakes he’s made. Investigating the seemingly innocent disappearance of a wind-farm inspector, Varg Veum is thrust...

Where Roses Never Die

Where Roses Never Die
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 21st century looking back to 1977

September 1977. Mette Misvær, a three-year-old girl disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her tiny, close middle-class community in the tranquil suburb of Nordas is devastated, but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Curtains twitch,...

Wolves in the Dark (Varg Veum)

Wolves in the Dark (Varg Veum)
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Noir, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Reeling from the death of his great love, Karin, Varg Veum’s life has descended into a self-destructive spiral of alcohol, lust, grief and blackouts. When traces of child pornography are found on his computer, he’s accused of being part...

Cold Hearts

Cold Hearts
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

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...

Fear Not

Fear Not
  • Author(s): Anne Holt
  • Location(s): Bergen, Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A drug addict dead in a basement, a young asylum seeker floating in the harbour, a high profile female bishop stabbed to death in the street. What is the connection? During a snowy Christmas season in Norway, criminal psychologist...

Bitter Flowers

Bitter Flowers
  • Author(s): Don Bartlett (translator), Gunnar Staalesen
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Noir, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Varg Veum #8 PI Varg Veum has returned to duty following a stint in rehab, but his new composure and resolution are soon threatened when a challenging assignment arrives on his desk. A man is found dead in an...

Pursued by Death

Pursued by Death
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen, Don Bartlett (translator)
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

.   When Varg Veum reads the newspaper headline ‘YOUNG MAN...

The Sea Cemetery

The Sea Cemetery
  • Author(s): Aslak Nore, Deborah Dawkin (Translator)
  • Location(s): Bergen, Oslo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

There is no love lost between the Oslo and Bergen branches of the powerful Falck family. So when its steely matriarch dies with no will to be found, the seeds of an inheritance dispute are sown. Yet her legacy...

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