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This is a series with very sharp teeth. --Ian Rankin A Norwegian Chandler. --Jo Nesbo Raymond Chandler fans won't want to miss this one. -- Publishers Weekly starred review of Wolves at the Door Terrific. . . .Like Raymond Chandler, Staalesen creates intense emotion through dialogue and description, but his altogether Norwegian focus forces home a substantial social message: ignoring the past is inevitably tragic. --Publishers Weekly starred review of Big Sister Chilling and perilous results--all told in a pleasingly dry style. --Sunday Times Staalesen continually reminds us he is one of the finest of Nordic novelists. --Financial Times Not many books hook you in the first chapter--this one did, and never let go! --Mari Hannah, author, The Insider Almost forty years into the Varg Veum odyssey, Staalesen is at the height of his storytelling powers. --Crime Fiction Lover

""This is a series with very sharp teeth."" --Ian Rankin ""A Norwegian Chandler."" --Jo Nesbø ""Raymond Chandler fans won't want to miss this one."" -- Publishers Weekly starred review of Wolves at the Door ""Terrific. . . .Like Raymond Chandler, Staalesen creates intense emotion through dialogue and description, but his altogether Norwegian focus forces home a substantial social message: ignoring the past is inevitably tragic."" --Publishers Weekly starred review of Big Sister ""Chilling and perilous results--all told in a pleasingly dry style."" --Sunday Times ""Staalesen continually reminds us he is one of the finest of Nordic novelists."" --Financial Times ""Not many books hook you in the first chapter--this one did, and never let go!"" --Mari Hannah, author, The Insider ""Almost forty years into the Varg Veum odyssey, Staalesen is at the height of his storytelling powers."" --Crime Fiction Lover

"""This is a series with very sharp teeth."" --Ian Rankin ""A Norwegian Chandler."" --Jo Nesb� ""Raymond Chandler fans won't want to miss this one."" -- Publishers Weekly starred review of Wolves at the Door ""Terrific. . . .Like Raymond Chandler, Staalesen creates intense emotion through dialogue and description, but his altogether Norwegian focus forces home a substantial social message: ignoring the past is inevitably tragic."" --Publishers Weekly starred review of Big Sister ""Chilling and perilous results--all told in a pleasingly dry style."" --Sunday Times ""Staalesen continually reminds us he is one of the finest of Nordic novelists."" --Financial Times ""Not many books hook you in the first chapter--this one did, and never let go!"" --Mari Hannah, author, The Insider ""Almost forty years into the Varg Veum odyssey, Staalesen is at the height of his storytelling powers."" --Crime Fiction Lover"

"""This is a series with very sharp teeth."" --Ian Rankin ""A Norwegian Chandler."" --Jo Nesbø ""Raymond Chandler fans won't want to miss this one."" -- Publishers Weekly starred review of Wolves at the Door ""Terrific. . . .Like Raymond Chandler, Staalesen creates intense emotion through dialogue and description, but his altogether Norwegian focus forces home a substantial social message: ignoring the past is inevitably tragic."" --Publishers Weekly starred review of Big Sister ""Chilling and perilous results--all told in a pleasingly dry style."" --Sunday Times ""Staalesen continually reminds us he is one of the finest of Nordic novelists."" --Financial Times ""Not many books hook you in the first chapter--this one did, and never let go!"" --Mari Hannah, author, The Insider ""Almost forty years into the Varg Veum odyssey, Staalesen is at the height of his storytelling powers."" --Crime Fiction Lover"

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One of the fathers of Nordic Noir, 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 twenty titles, which have been published in twenty-four countries and sold over four million copies. Twelve film adaptations of his Varg Veum crime novels have appeared since 2007, starring the popular Norwegian actor Trond Espen Seim. Staalesen has won three Golden Pistols (including the Prize of Honour) and Where Roses Never Die won the 2017 Petrona Award for Nordic Crime Fiction, and Big Sister was shortlisted in 2019. He lives with his wife in Bergen. Don Bartlett completed an MA in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia in 2000 and has since worked with a wide variety of Danish and Norwegian authors, including Jo Nesbø and Gunnar Staalesen’s Varg Veum series: We Shall Inherit the Wind, Wolves in the Dark and the Petrona award-winning Where Roses Never Die. He also translated Faithless, the previous book in Kjell Ola Dahl’s Oslo Detective series for Orenda Books. He lives with his family in a village in Norfolk.

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