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September 1995. Veum is in his office when a telephone conversation takes him back 25 years, to a case he was involved in while working as a child protection officer, in the summer of 1970. A small boy was seperated from his mother under tragic circumstances. But that was not the end of it. In 1974 the same boy surfaced in connection with a sudden death in his new home. And again ten years later, in connection with a dramatic double-murder in Sunnfjord. The boy is now an adult, on the run in Oslo, determined to take revenge on those responsible for destroying his life, among them the former child protection officer, now detective Veum.
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It is September 1995 and Veum is in his office when a telephone call takes him back 25 years, to a case where a small boy was separated from his mother under tragic circumstances. In the following decades, the same boy had surfaced in connection with several murder cases. Now, as an adult, he is determined to take revenge on those responsible for destroying his life - among them the former child protection officer who is now detective Veum.
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'Popular Norwegian series featuring private eye Varg Veum, an upmarket Scandinavian Philip Marlowe' --Maxim Jakubowski, The Bookseller
'Every inch the equal of his Nordic confreres Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo' --Barry Forsaw, Crime Time
'Staalesen is another fine representative of Scandinavian crime fiction' --Independent
'Every inch the equal of his Nordic confreres Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo' --Barry Forsaw, Crime Time
'Staalesen is another fine representative of Scandinavian crime fiction' --Independent
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- PublisherArcadia Books
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 190641338X
- ISBN 13 9781906413385
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages335
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