Yours Until Death (Eurocrime) by Gunnar Staalesen (2011-07-20)

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The Consorts of Death (Eurocrime series) by Gunnar Staalesen (2014-09-01)

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Yours Until Death (Eurocrime)

(The single-mother families of the isolated high-rise comm...)

The single-mother families of the isolated high-rise community under the shadow of the Lyderhorn, Bergen's great mountain - steep, dark and oppressive - were being robbed, terrorized and molested by a teenage gang led by the psychopath, Joker, who looked like a priest, but with the eyes of a tiger and the teeth of a decaying corpse. It was at their ""torture chamber"", a hut in the pinewoods nearby, that Varg Veum, Private Investigator, first encountered the gang's pathetic but deadly ferocity. Eight-year-old Roar's bicycle had been stolen and not an adult in sight dared retrieve it. But a preliminary brush with such youthful violence was as nothing compared to what awaited Veum when he got to know Roar's shy yet sensuous mother, Wenche Andresen, and her estranged husband, Jonas. Veum's attempts to break up Joker and his pack of young thugs by enlisting the help of the local youth club leader proved a dead end. But not so dead as the man who lay prone with a knife in his back on the floor of Andresen's flat. Yours Until Death is an unbearably tense novel of revenge and murder about marriage, childhood, bereavement and the destructive force of passion. First published in Norwegian in 1979, it was described by the critic Nils Nordberg as ""one of the finest, most serious, most ambitious books in post-war Norwegian crime writing."" ""Staalsen's mastery of pacing enables him to develop his characters in a leisurely way without sacrificing tension and suspense.""-Publishers Weekly

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The Writing on the Wall by Gunnar Staalesen (2009-10-01)

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The Consorts of Death (Eurocrime series)

(When detective Varg Veum takes a telephone call in his of...)

When detective Varg Veum takes a telephone call in his office, his mind is suddenly thrust back 25 years, to his days as a child protection officer and the case of a small boy separated from his mother under tragic circumstances. This same boy has surfaced in several other cases, in connection with a sudden death in his new foster home and, a decade later, in a dramatic double murder in Sunnfjord. Now that boy is an adult on the run in Oslo, determined to take revenge on those responsible for destroying his life-among them his former child protection officer, detective Veum.

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The Writing on the Wall

(In this crime drama, set in Bergen, Norway, detective Var...)

In this crime drama, set in Bergen, Norway, detective Varg Veum's adventures take him into a dark world of privileged citizens who have been drawn into cross-dressing, drugs, and prostitution. When the local judge is discovered dead, clad only in women's lingerie in a luxury hotel, Varg is called in to explain the judge's death. Soon a teenage girl goes missing and her parents ask that he find her. Varg learns that all of the clues lead him deeper into Bergen's criminal underworld.

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