‘Haritos himself is an intriguing find: zealous in his work, more in love with his wife that he will admit, suspicious by training, his only relief from work being the hours he spends learning new words in his dictionaries at home’ Washington Post
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THE CONSORTS OF DEATH
Gunnar Staalesen
Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett
‘I got a telephone call from the past.’ Thus begins the thirteenth novel in the series about Bergen detective, Varg Veum.
It is September 1995, and Veum is in his office when a telephone conversation takes him back twenty-five years, to a case he was involved in while working as a child protection officer, during the summer of 1970. A small boy was separated from his mother under tragic circumstances. But that had not been the end of it. In 1974 the same boy had surfaced in connection with a sudden death in his new home. And then again, ten years later, in connection with yet another case: a dramatic double-murder in Sunnfjord. The boy is now an adult, and 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.
‘Popular Norwegian series featuring private eye Varg Veum, an upmarket Scandinavian Philip Marlowe’ Maxim Jakubowski, The Bookseller
978-1-906413-38-5
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About the Author
GUNNAR STAALESEN was born in Bergen, Norway in 1947. He made his début at the early age of twenty-two with Seasons of Innocence. In 1977 he published the first book in the Varg Veum series. They are immensely popular and have been translated into twelve languages including French, German, Dutch, Italian and Russian. Gunnar Staalesen has twice won Norway’s top crime prize, the Golden Pistol.
Copyright
First published in the United Kingdom in 2004
by Arcadia Books, 15-16 Nassau Street, London, W1W 7AB
This ebook edition first published in 2011
Originally published in Norwegian by Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S in 1995
Translation from the Norwegian © Hal Sutcliffe
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© Gunnar Staalesen, 2004
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