The Writing on the Wall
$39.32
- Paperback
313 pages
- Release Date
3 June 2009
Summary
“A Norwegian Chandler” JO NESBO
“In the best tradition of sleuthery” The Times
“One of the finest Nordic novelists in the tradition of Henning Mankell” BARRY FORSHAW, Independent
Bergen, Norway. Teenaged girls, many from privileged backgrounds, are being drawn into drugs and prostitution at an astonishing rate. When the local magistrate is discovered dead in a luxury hotel, clad only in women’s lingerie, the mystery de…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781906413194 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1906413193 |
| Author: | Gunnar Staalesen, Hal Sutcliffe |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Arcadia Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 313 |
| Release Date: | 3 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 21mm |
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About The Author
Gunnar Staalesen
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.
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