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Pursued by Death: The breathtakingly tense new Varg Veum thriller

English

By (author): Gunnar Staalesen

Translated by: Don Bartlett

When Bergen PI Varg Veum becomes involved in the disappearance of a young activist, he comes up against one villages particular brand of justice The international bestselling, critically acclaimed Varg Veum series returns
 
`As searing and gripping as they come´ New York Times
 
`One of my very favourite Scandinavian authors´ Ian Rankin
 
`The Norwegian Chandler´ Jo Nesbø
 
When Varg Veum reads the newspaper headline Young Man Missing, he realises hes seen the youth just a few days earlier at a crossroads in the countryside, with his two friends. It turns out that the three were on their way to a demonstration against a commercial fish-farming facility in the tiny village of Solvik, north of Bergen.
 
Varg heads to Solvik, initially out of curiosity, but when he chances upon a dead body in the sea, hes pulled into a dark and complex web of secrets, feuds and jealousies.
 
Is the body hes found connected to the death of a journalist who was digging into the fish farm's operations two years earlier? And does either incident have something to do with the competition between the two powerful families that dominate Solviks salmon-farming industry? 
 
Or are the deaths the actions of the Village Beast the brutal small-town justice meted out by rural communities in this part of the world. 
 
Shocking, timely and full of breathtaking twists and turns, Pursued by Death reaffirms Gunnar Staalesen as one of the world's greatest crime writers. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Aug 2024
  • Publisher: Orenda Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781916788244

About Gunnar Staalesen

One of the fathers of Nordic Noir Gunnar Staalesen was born in Bergen Norway in 1947. He made his debut at the age of twenty-two with Seasons of Innocence and in 1977 he published the first book in the Varg Veum series. He is the author of over twenty titles which have been published in twenty-four countries and sold over four million copies. Twelve film adaptations of his Varg Veum crime novels have appeared since 2007 starring the popular Norwegian actor Trond Espen Seim. Staalesen has won three Golden Pistols (including the Prize of Honour) and Where Roses Never Die won the 2017 Petrona Award for Nordic Crime Fiction and Big Sister was shortlisted in 2019. He lives with his wife in Bergen. Don Bartlett completed an MA in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia in 2000 and has since worked with a wide variety of Danish and Norwegian authors including Jo Nesbø and Gunnar Staalesens Varg Veum series: We Shall Inherit the Wind Wolves in the Dark and the Petrona award-winning Where Roses Never Die. He also translated Faithless the previous book in Kjell Ola Dahls Oslo Detective series for Orenda Books. He lives with his family in a village in Norfolk.

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