Résultats pour "Gunnar Staalesen" dans Détectives privés

PI Varg Veum has returned to duty following a stint in rehab, but his new composure and resolution are soon threatened when three complex cases arrive on his desk in quick succession. A man is found dead in an elite swimming pool and a young woman has gone missing. Most chillingly, Varg Veum is asked to investigate the ‘Camilla Case’: an eight-year-old cold case involving the disappearance of a little girl who was never found.

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.

Et tilfældigt møde med en gammel klassekammerat fører Varg Veum tilbage i tiden – tilbage til Bergens store stjerne i 60’erne, rockbandet The Harpers. Der sker et mord, og Veum tvinges til at følge et spor, der fører ham tilbage til hans egen barndom og opvækst. Med stigende uro føres læseren frem til den overraskende slutning, der kaster lys over hele handlingsforløbet.

Efter en henvendelse fra en mor dykker Varg Veum ned i Bergens underverden og finder et modbydeligt og dødsensfarligt net af prostitution blandt teenagepiger.

En mand findes død på bunden af et luksuriøst svømmebassin. En ung kvinde forsvinder. Den otte år gamle sag om lille Camillas forsvinden vækkes til live igen. Og dette bliver bare begyndelsen på de udfordringer der møder Bergens Varg Veum. Bitre blomster er ottende bog i serien om privatdetektiven Varg Veum og kan læses selvstændigt.

Da Varg Veum finder en død mand i sit venteværelse, bliver det afsættet for en mudret sag som strækker sig tilbage til 1970'erne, hvor både politiske og erotiske konflikter kommer for en dag, og som igen har forbindelse med nutiden. Ansigt til ansigt er tolvte bog i serien om privatdetektiven Varg Veum og kan læses selvstændigt.

Varg Veum har to sager at løse: han skal finde en ung kvinde, som er forsvundet i Bergens narkomiljø, og hjælpe en sydafrikansk mand i hans kamp mod udlændingepolitiets bureaukrati. Det tager ikke lang tid, før Veum forstår, at de to sager er forbundne.

One dark January night a car drives at high speed towards PI Varg Veum, and comes very close to killing him. Veum is certain this is no accident, following so soon after the deaths of two jailed men who were convicted for their participation in a case of child pornography and sexual assault...crimes that Veum himself once stood wrongly accused of committing.

Varg Veum receives a surprise visit in his office. A woman introduces herself as his half sister, and she has a job for him. Her goddaughter, a 19-year-old trainee nurse from Haugesund, moved from her bedsit in Bergen two weeks ago. Since then no one has heard anything from her. She didn't leave an address. She doesn't answer her phone. And the police refuse to take her case seriously. Veum's investigation uncovers a series of carefully covered up crimes and pent-up hatreds....

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.

September 1977. Mette Misvãr, a three-year-old girl, disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her tiny, close middle-class community in the tranquil suburb of Nordas is devastated, but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Curtains twitch, suspicions are raised, but Mette is never found.

It's 1998. Varg Veum sits by the hospital bedside of his long-term girlfriend, Karin, whose life-threatening injuries provide a deeply painful reminder of the mistakes he's made. Investigating the seemingly innocent disappearance of a wind-farm inspector, Varg Veum is thrust into one of the most challenging cases of his career, riddled with conflicts, environmental terrorism, religious fanaticism, unsolved mysteries and dubious business ethics.