The Writing on the Wall
By (Author) Gunnar Staalesen
Translated by Hal Sutcliffe
Quercus Publishing
Arcadia Books
4th June 2009
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
839.82374
Paperback
313
Width 130mm, Height 199mm, Spine 21mm
280g
Crime drama in which detective Varg Veum's adventures take him into the world of privileged teenage girls who have been drawn into drugs and prostitution. The situation worsens when the local judge is found dead in a luxury hotel, clad only in women's lingerie. Called in by anxious parents to look for a missing daughter and explain the judge's death, Varg is led deep into Bergen's criminal underworld.
"'An intriguing reworking of an old idea' Time Out"
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.