Pursued by Death

Name: Pursued by Death
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Gunnar Staalesen
ISBN: 9781399162517

Author: Gunnar Staalesen

Series: Varg Veum #26

Narrator: Mark Meadows

Unabridged: 9 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Published: 08/15/2024

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

When Varg Veum reads the newspaper headline 'YOUNG MAN MISSING', he realises he saw the youth just a few days earlier - en route to a demonstration against a commercial fish-farming facility in the tiny village of Solvik, north of Bergen. Varg heads to Solvik, initially out of curiosity, but when he chances upon a dead body in the sea, he's pulled into a dark and complex web of secrets, feuds and jealousies. Is the body he's found connected to the death of a journalist who was digging into the fish farm's operations two years earlier? And does either incident have something to do with the competition between the two powerful families that dominate Solvik's salmon-farming industry? Or are the deaths the actions of the 'Village Beast' - the brutal small-town justice meted out by rural communities in this part of the world?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Caroleest on February 21, 2025

Achtervolgd door de dood is het nieuwste deel in de Varg Veum serie. Een Scandinavische thriller die je in zijn greep houdt. Het verhaal: Met de bus onderweg naar Bergen ziet Varg Veum dat twee meisjes bij een halte worden afgehaald door een jongeman met een kampeerbusje. Een paar dagen later ziet hij......more

Goodreads review by Alfred on August 05, 2024

A very brooding and slow burn of a book. But at the risk of contradicting myself, what a lot happens. And it's all down to one man's curiosity. Varg Veum is asked by a local to investigate the death of a person, who died two years previously. He agrees to take on the case, but before he can he is sto......more

Goodreads review by Karen on November 02, 2024

The last three Varg Veum novels published by Orenda Books (Fallen Angels, Bitter Flowers and Mirror Image) had been published in Norway several years previously and gave English readers the opportunity to learn more about the seasoned private investigator as a young man. We return to the chronologic......more

Goodreads review by David on November 14, 2024

Missing person/family issues/corruption. Workmanlike Scandinoir but not as noir as the TV series.......more