Wolves at the Door (Varg Veum): Volume 19 - Softcover

Gunnar Staalesen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912374412 ISBN 13: 9781912374410

Publisher: Orenda Books, 2019

Synopsis

The wolves are no longer in the dark ... they are at his door. And they want vengeance...

The next instalment in the international, bestselling Varg Veum series by one of the fathers of Nordic Noir ...

‘Gunnar Staalesen is one of my very favourite Scandinavian authors. Operating out of Bergen in Norway, his private eye, Varg Veum, is a complex but engaging anti-hero. Varg means “wolf” in Norwegian, and this is a series with very sharp teeth’ Ian Rankin

‘The Norwegian Chandler’ Jo Nesbø

One dark January night a car drives at high speed towards PI Varg Veum, and comes very close to killing him. Veum is certain this is no accident, following so soon after the deaths of two jailed men who were convicted for their participation in a case of child pornography and sexual assault ... crimes that Veum himself once stood wrongly accused of committing.

While the guilty men were apparently killed accidentally, Varg suspects that there is something more sinister at play ... and that he’s on the death list of someone still at large.

Fearing for his life, Veum begins to investigate the old case, interviewing the victims of abuse and delving deeper into the brutal crimes, with shocking results. The wolves are no longer in the dark ... they are at his door. And they want vengeance.

‘Not many books hook you in the first chapter – this one did, and never let go!’ Mari Hannah

‘Almost forty years into the Varg Veum odyssey, Staalesen is at the height of his storytelling powers’ Crime Fiction Lover

‘Staalesen continually reminds us he is one of the finest of Nordic novelists’ Financial Times

‘Chilling and perilous results — all told in a pleasingly dry style’ The Sunday Times

‘Staalesen does a masterful job of exposing the worst of Norwegian society in this highly disturbing entry’ Publishers Weekly

About this title

Review:

"This is a series with very sharp teeth." --Ian Rankin

"A Norwegian Chandler." --Jo Nesbø

"Terrific. . . .Like Raymond Chandler, Staalesen creates intense emotion through dialogue and description, but his altogether Norwegian focus forces home a substantial social message: ignoring the past is inevitably tragic." --Publishers Weekly starred review of Big Sister

"Chilling and perilous results--all told in a pleasingly dry style." --Sunday Times

"Staalesen continually reminds us he is one of the finest of Nordic novelists." --Financial Times

"Not many books hook you in the first chapter--this one did, and never let go!" --Mari Hannah, author, The Insider

"Almost forty years into the Varg Veum odyssey, Staalesen is at the height of his storytelling powers." --Crime Fiction Lover

About the Author:

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 crime fiction. He lives with his wife in Bergen.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orenda Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1912374412
• ISBN 13: 9781912374410
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276