Consorts of Death

’The Norwegian Chandler’ Jo Nesb
’One of my very favourite Scandinavian authors’ Ian Rankin
’Staalesen’s most striking novel’ Independent
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September 1995. A phone call takes Verg Veum back 25 years to a case from when he was a working as a child protection officer in the summer of 1970. A small boy was separated from his mother under tragic circumstances, but it didn’t end there.

In 1974, the same boy surfaced in connection with a sudden death at his new home; and once again, ten years later, after a dramatic double murder in Sunnfjord. The boy is now an adult, on the run in Oslo and determined to take revenge on those responsible for destroying his life - among them Veum, now a private investigator.

A chilling series of complex motives, puzzling links and deeply dysfunctional relationships are cleverly drawn together in a stunning plot that will leave you gripped to the final page. The Consorts of Death shows Staalesen at his most thrilling, thought-provoking best.

Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett

Gunnar Staalesen, born in 1947 in Bergen, Norway, is a leading author of crime stories, which books have been translated into more than 12 languages and have twice won Norway’s top crime prize, the Golden Pistol. EuroCrime published The Writing on the Wall in 2004.