Books

Blind Spot

The King's Council

1954, in a condemned building in Oslo: A Norwegian official suspected of being a Soviet spy is being tortured to death. Present day: Three Norwegian ambassadors die in suspicious…

The Courier

The Mark of Shame

The Judas Kiss

Incognito

Monopoly

Point Zero

The Consorts of Death

It is September 1995, and Veum is in his office when a telephone conversation takes him back twenty-five years, to a case he was involved in while working as a child protection…

Bitter Blooms

A man is found dead at the bottom of an exclusive swimming pool. A young woman is gone. An eight year old case where little Camilla disappeared tracefully, resurrected. This is…

Fallen Angels

Was awarded the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize, the prize for the best crime story published in Denmark in 1990, and was acclaimed by both Norwegian and Danish critics.

Where Roses Never Die

We Shall Inherit the Wind

The fifteenth in the famous series featuring PI Varg Veum. Varg Veum’s girlfriend Karin Bjørge is in hospital with life-threatening injuries, and Veum has to admit it: the blame…

Totem

A man dressed in a light coloured suit arrives at Hamar railway station. He checks in at the nearest hotel and requests a town map. The following day he is killed in a hardware…

The Writing on the Wall

A few days later private investigator Varg Veum is asked to look for a young girl who is missing. The same day he receives his own death announcement in the mail. What at first…

Late Damage

The Girl with the Balloon

The Thieves

The Woman in the Fridge

Staalesen’s most action-packed novel with a plot set in Norway’s oil town second to none, Stavanger. Here, the pulse of Norwegian city life - car chases and violent armed pursuits…

Night Frost

Face to Face

Reflection in a Mirror

The Border

Into Thin Air

Into Thin Air is a North Norwegian noir featuring the midnight sun and dark secrets in the depths of winter.