Filled with atmosphere and striking descriptions... an excellent read' - Verdens Gang The latest novel in the Varg Veum detective series: in Bergen, Norway, young teenage girls are being drawn into prostitution at an astounding rate. Then the local magistrate is discovered in a luxury hotel, clad only in women's lingerie - and most assuredly dead. Private detective Varg Veum is called in by anxious parents to look for their missing daughter, whose body is found dumped beside the road. Clues drag Veum into the Bergen underworld... but will he escape with his life?
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When one Friday afternoon in February Judge HC Brandt, age seventy, was found dead in one of the better hotels in town, wearing nothing but flimsy women's underwear, rumours soon began to spread. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Reverte77
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To begin with, it is a highly recommended book - a mandatory reading book by the Norwegian Gunnar Staalesen. Though the plot is not complicated, it gradually turns out to be overwhelming, as it has to do with teen girls in prostitution, one of them found dead in a mountain. The author seems to know pretty well the youths' problems. He is not just revealing, page after page, who committed the crime, but importantly he reveals the vice and the (deadly) passion of certain people, the murderer's included.
The last pages are literally an overwhelming drama, totally unexpected.
The last pages reveal the author's pessimistic view on the dangers around youths - and that's the best thing in the book
Overall, definitely one of my favourite books.
The last pages are literally an overwhelming drama, totally unexpected.
The last pages reveal the author's pessimistic view on the dangers around youths - and that's the best thing in the book
Overall, definitely one of my favourite books.
By Vegar
Format:Paperback
Staalesen is a very underrated crime writer. In Norway he is big, nearly on Nesbos level however he never seems to be rated highly outside of Norway. As I said highly underrated and well worth a read.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Nipper66
Format:Paperback
This was the first Gunnar Staalesen I have read and initially I found it a bit slow and difficult to get into. This may have been the translation? However, after about the first chapter I was totally hooked and found the characters plausible and interesting and the plot absolutely riveting. Make sure you don't take a peep at the ending because it will spoil what is an intricate and well constructed plot with several brilliant twists at the end. Definitely well worth the read and I will certainly be reading more books by this author.
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