Wolves in the dark

Wolves in the dark

Gunnar Staalesen, 1947-

Book - 2017

"Reeling from the death of his great love, Karin, Varg Veum's life has descended into a self-destructive spiral of alcohol, lust, grief and blackouts. When traces of child pornography are found on his computer, he's accused of being part of a paedophile ring and thrown into a prison cell. There, he struggles to sift through his past to work out who is responsible for planting the material and who is seeking the ultimate revenge. When a chance to escape presents itself, Varg finds himself on the run in his hometown of Bergen. With the clock ticking and the police on his tail, Varg takes on his hardest and most personal, case yet."--Back cover.

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Subjects
Veum, Varg > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Private investigators > Norway > Bergen > Fiction.
Child molesters > Fiction.
Revenge > Fiction.
Norwegian fiction > Translations into English.
Bergen (Norway) > Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Genres
Mystery fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Published
London : Orenda Books 2017.
Language
English
Norwegian
Main Author
Gunnar Staalesen, 1947- (author)
Other Authors
Don Bartlett (translator)
Item Description
Translation of: Ingen er så trygg i fare.
Physical Description
305 pages : map ; 20 cm
ISBN
9781910633724
Contents unavailable.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

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 charges: his computer contains evidence of his participation in an international child pornography ring, and unretouched photos surface that show him assaulting a desperately frightened pre-teen girl. After escaping from police custody, Veum painfully explores the "black holes" from those quasi-lost years of booze-saturated despair, hoping to clear his name. Veum has never before faced a case with so many loose threads, and, in untangling them, he comes to realize that neither politicians nor police officers take the plight of victimized refugee children seriously. Staalesen does a masterful job of exposing the worst of Norwegian society in this highly disturbing entry. Agent: Anne Catherine Eng, Gyldendal Agency (Norway). (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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