Writing on the Wall

Informationen zum Autor 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 20 titles, which have been published in 24 countries and sold over two million copies. Twelve film adaptations of his Varg Veum crime novels have appeared since 2007, starring the popular Norwegian actor Trond Epsen Seim. Staalesen, who has twice won Norway's top crime prize, the Golden Pistol, lives in Bergen with his wife. Klappentext 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. Vorwort A taut, gripping thriller from Norway's most dazzling crime writer, featuring Bergen detective Varg Veum Zusammenfassung Detective Varg Veum's adventures lead him into a dark world of privileged teenage girls who have been drawn into drugs and prostitution. The situation worsens when the local judge is discovered in a luxury hotel, dead and clad only in women's lingerie.

Product details

• Authors: Gunnar Staalesen, Staalesen Gunnar
• Assisted by: Dan Bartlett (Translation), Hal Sutcliffe (Translation), Sutcliffe Hal (Translation)
• Publisher: Arcadia Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.06.2009
• EAN: 9781906413194
• ISBN: 978-1-906413-19-4
• No. of pages: 313
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction, Police law & police procedures, Police law and police procedures