Gunnar Staalesen, trans. from the Norwegian by Dan Bartlett. Arcadia (Dufour, dist.), $18.95 trade paper (300p) ISBN 978-1-908129-43-7
Like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, this entry in Staalesen’s long-running Norwegian crime series featuring Bergen detective Varg Veum (Consorts of Death, etc.) examines issues of class prejudice, misplaced trust, and self-righteous exploitation....
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Gunnar Staalesen, trans. from the Norwegian by Margaret Amassian. Arcadia/Eurocrime (Dufour, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (332p) ISBN 978-1-906413-70-5
Fans of contemporary noir will welcome Staalesen's superior second entry, first published in Norway in 1979, in his series featuring Bergen PI Varg Veum (The Consorts of Death, etc.). Roar Andresen, an eight-year-old boy, needs Veum's help in...
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Gunnar Staalesen, trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Orenda (IPG, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (300p) ISBN 978-1-910633-07-6
Set in 1998, Staalesen’s moving, uncompromising 17th novel featuring Bergen, Norway, PI Varg Veum (after 2013’s Cold Hearts) finds Varg, a former missing-child investigator for a government agency, sitting by the bedside of Karin Bjørge, whom he has
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Gunnar Staalesen, trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Orenda (IPG, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (260p) ISBN 978-1-910633-09-0
While many current Scandinavian mystery authors produce procedurals featuring world-weary and emotionally disturbed police detectives, Staalesen follows the hard-boiled PI tradition, as shown by the stunning 18th entry in his series starring Varg...
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Gunnar Staalesen, trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Orenda (IPG, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (276p) ISBN 978-1-910633-72-4
In Staalesen’s stellar 19th novel set in Bergen, Norway (after 2016’s Where Roses Never Die), detective Varg Veum, who’s just starting to drag himself out of near-fatal depression four years after his partner Karin’s death, is arrested on monstrous...
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Gunnar Staalesen, trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Orenda (IPG, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (276p) ISBN 978-1-912374-41-0
Varg Veum, whose Old Norse–derived name connotes “an outlaw,” prowls the mean streets of contemporary Bergen, Norway, in Staalesen’s searing 21st novel featuring the world-weary PI and former child welfare officer (after 2018’s Big Sister). Veum...
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Gunnar Staalesen, trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Orenda (IPG, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (276p) ISBN 978-1-912374-19-9
In Norwegian author Staalesen’s terrific 20th novel featuring Bergen PI Varg Veum (after 2017’s Wolves in the Dark), Veum—a divorced former child welfare officer, now over 60 but still fit—seeks missing 19-year-old university student Emma Hagland,...
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