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- ISBN 9781917764612
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 2026
- Publisher: Orenda Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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When a dead man appears in his waiting room, Bergen private detective Varg Veum finds himself investigating a controversial death from fourteen years earlier. The internationally bestselling Varg Veum series continues…
`As searing and gripping as they come´ New York Times
`One of my very favourite Scandinavian authors´ Ian Rankin
`The Norwegian Chandler´ Jo Nesbø
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‘There was a dead man sitting in my waiting room.’
So begins another unsettling case for Bergen private detective, Varg Veum.
The identity of the dead man soon becomes clear. He had come to see Veum about a case of his own, one rooted in a death on the Møre coast fourteen years earlier. A woman walked into the sea and never returned. The verdict was suicide, but not everyone believed it.
As Veum follows the trail his silent visitor left behind, the investigation leads back to a radical student collective in Bergen in the 1970s, where political loyalties, personal rivalries and old decisions still cast long shadows. Someone has gone to great lengths to keep that past concealed, and the price of digging too deep has already proved fatal.
Tense, atmospheric and uncompromising, Face to Face is Gunnar Staalesen at his very, very best.
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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 Staalesen’s 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 Dahl’s Oslo Detective series for Orenda Books. He lives with his family in a village in Norfolk.
