The Consorts of Death
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On a frosty January day in Bergen, private detective Varg Veum is visited by a prostitute. Her friend Margrethe hasn't been seen for days. Before her disappearance, something had unsettled her: she'd turned away a customer and returned to the neighbourhood in terror. Shortly after taking the case, Veum is confronted with a brutal reality. He soon finds the first body - and it won't be the last either. His investigation leads him into a dark subculture where corrupted idealism has had deadly consequences.
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- By BDHumbert on 10-18-18
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In this crime drama, detective Varg Veum's adventures take him into the world of privileged teenage girls who have been drawn into drugs and prostitution. The situation worsens when the local judge is found dead in a luxury hotel, clad only in women's lingerie. Called in by anxious parents to look for a missing daughter and explain the judge's death, Varg is led deep into Bergen's criminal underworld.
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5 out of 5 stars
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another excellent book by Gunnar Staalesen with narration by Colin Mace
- By jonathan on 03-16-18
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Yours Until Death
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An unbearably tense novel of revenge, murder, bereavement and the destructive force of passion. The single-mother families of the isolated community under the shadow of the Pyderhorn, Bergen's greatest mountain, are being terrorised by a teenage gang. But teenage violence is nothing compared to what awaits detective Varg Veum when he gets to know the blue-eyed Wenche Andersen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Scandinavian Mystery!
- By Peoko on 07-12-17
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Big Sister
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- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- By GardenGirl on 03-08-19
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Where Roses Never Die
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- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,213
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,126
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,118
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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Story with Satisfying Ending
- By Larry on 09-04-16
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Wolves in the Dark
- Varg Veum
- By: Gunnar Staalesen
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not that good
- By Donna on 06-23-17
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Cold Hearts
- Varg Veum
- By: Gunnar Staalesen
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4 out of 5 stars 27
On a frosty January day in Bergen, private detective Varg Veum is visited by a prostitute. Her friend Margrethe hasn't been seen for days. Before her disappearance, something had unsettled her: she'd turned away a customer and returned to the neighbourhood in terror. Shortly after taking the case, Veum is confronted with a brutal reality. He soon finds the first body - and it won't be the last either. His investigation leads him into a dark subculture where corrupted idealism has had deadly consequences.
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3 out of 5 stars
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New
- By BDHumbert on 10-18-18
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The Writing on the Wall
- Varg Veum
- By: Gunnar Staalesen
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4 out of 5 stars 46
In this crime drama, detective Varg Veum's adventures take him into the world of privileged teenage girls who have been drawn into drugs and prostitution. The situation worsens when the local judge is found dead in a luxury hotel, clad only in women's lingerie. Called in by anxious parents to look for a missing daughter and explain the judge's death, Varg is led deep into Bergen's criminal underworld.
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5 out of 5 stars
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another excellent book by Gunnar Staalesen with narration by Colin Mace
- By jonathan on 03-16-18
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Yours Until Death
- Varg Veum
- By: Gunnar Staalesen
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 59
An unbearably tense novel of revenge, murder, bereavement and the destructive force of passion. The single-mother families of the isolated community under the shadow of the Pyderhorn, Bergen's greatest mountain, are being terrorised by a teenage gang. But teenage violence is nothing compared to what awaits detective Varg Veum when he gets to know the blue-eyed Wenche Andersen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Scandinavian Mystery!
- By Peoko on 07-12-17
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Big Sister
- Varg Veum
- By: Gunnar Staalesen
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- By GardenGirl on 03-08-19
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Where Roses Never Die
- Varg Veum
- By: Gunnar Staalesen
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,213
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,126
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,118
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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Story with Satisfying Ending
- By Larry on 09-04-16
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Wolves in the Dark
- Varg Veum
- By: Gunnar Staalesen
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4 out of 5 stars 21
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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not that good
- By Donna on 06-23-17
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We Shall Inherit the Wind
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- By: Gunnar Staalesen
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- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 183
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 166
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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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Crazy about this series!
- By Jill on 01-12-17
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Wolves at the Door
- Varg Veum
- By: Gunnar Staalesen
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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i got the wrong book.
- By J T A on 09-13-19
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Victim 2117
- A Department Q Novel, Book 8
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The newspaper refers to the body only as Victim 2117 - the 2117th refugee to die in the Mediterranean Sea. But to three people, the unnamed victim is so much more, and the death sets off a chain of events that throws Department Q, Copenhagen’s cold cases division led by Detective Carl Mørck, into a deeply dangerous - and deeply personal - case. A case that not only reveals dark secrets about the past, but has deadly implications for the future.
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The Body on the Shore
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Promising architect Peter Young is shot dead at his desk. DCI Craig Gillard is on the scene, looking at what appears to be a brutal and highly professional hit: two bullets, fired with ice-cold calm. Gillard knows that the most crucial question in solving the crime is one word: why? Two weeks later, on the Lincolnshire coast, another body is found on a windswept beach. In this case there is no identity for the young man, just a curious brand burned into his neck....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping Unusual & Masterful
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Thicker Than Water
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When a badly mutilated body washes up on the shores of Loch Ness, DCI Jack Logan's dream of a quiet life in the Highlands is shattered. While the media speculates wildly about monster attacks, Jack and the Major Investigations Team must act fast to catch the killer before they can strike again. But with Nessie-hunters descending on the area in their dozens, and an old enemy rearing his ugly head, the case could well turn out to be the most challenging of Jack's career. And, if he isn't careful, the last.
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5 out of 5 stars
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JD Kirk does it again!
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#taken
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#taken in the night: They thought they were kidnapping the mistress of one of London’s most powerful gangsters. But they’ve taken the wrong woman. And crossed the wrong detective. #taken underground: Detective Max Wolfe's hunt for the missing woman takes him from New Scotland Yard’s legendary Black Museum to the glittering mansions of career criminals, from sleazy strip joints to secret sex dungeons - and to unspeakably dark deeds committed decades ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Parsons never disappoints.
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The Tenant
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When a young woman is found brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. Soon, they establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who’s a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a budding novelist - and when Julie turns up as a murder victim in the unfinished mystery she’s writing, the link between fiction and real life grows.
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1 out of 5 stars
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- By Donna on 01-15-20
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The Body in the Marsh
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Criminologist Martin Knight lives a gilded life and is a thorn in the side of the police. But then his wife, Liz, goes missing. There is no good explanation and no sign of Martin.... To make things worse, Liz is the ex-girlfriend of DCI Craig Gillard who is drawn into the investigation. Is it just a missing person or something worse? And what relevance do the events around the shocking Girl F case, so taken up by Knight, have to do with the present? The truth is darker than you could ever have imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional
- By Miriam Sabir on 10-28-18
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The Body in the Mist
- DCI Craig Gillard, Book 3
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- Narrated by: Marston York
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A body is found on a quiet lane in Exmoor, victim of a hit and run. He has no ID, no wallet, no phone, and - after being dragged along the road - no recognisable face. Meanwhile, fresh from his last case, DCI Craig Gillard is unexpectedly called away to Devon on family business. Gillard is soon embroiled when the car in question is traced to his aunt. As he delves deeper, a dark mystery reveals itself, haunted by family secrets, with repercussions Gillard could never have imagined. The past has never been deadlier.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very good book; horrible recording
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The Dark Yorkshire Series: Books 1-3
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The Dark Yorkshire Series - fast-paced crime fiction stories featuring DI Nathaniel Caslin. The first three full-length books in this best-selling series are brought together for the first time in this great value set.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen!!
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3 out of 5 stars
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too much violence/too little character/story
- By Dr. William J. Kass on 08-02-19
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Knife
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 854
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 785
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Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel - the only woman he's ever loved - has ended it with him, permanently. He's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police, but it's in the cold case office. What he really wants is to be investigating cases he suspects have ties to Svein Finne, the serial rapist and murderer who Harry helped put behind bars. And now, Finne is free after a decade-plus in prison. When Harry wakes up the morning after a drunken night with blood that's clearly not his own on his hands, it's only the very beginning of what will be a waking nightmare.
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3 out of 5 stars
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If you’ve never read Jo Nesbo, don’t start with this one!
- By Denver reader on 08-13-19
Publisher's Summary
It is September 1995, and Veum is in his office when a telephone call takes him back 25 years, to a case where a small boy was separated from his mother under tragic circumstances. In the following decades, the same boy had surfaced in connection with several murder cases. Now, as an adult, he is determined to take revenge on those responsible for destroying his life - among them the former child protection officer who is now Detective Veum.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-23-19
Great noir novel
I've read so many noir detective novels, Chandler is my favorite and more recently got into listening to the audio versions, this audio book was up there, brilliant plot, awesome character development and a crashing ending. Previous books in this series were lacking a bit in plot, but this book steps it up and I can thoroughly recommend it.
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