{"product_id":"mirror-image-9781914585944","title":"Mirror Image","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs Bergen PI Varg Veum investigates two different cases, it becomes clear that they are uncannily similar to harrowing events that took place thirty-six years earlier... A gripping instalment of the award-winning Varg Veum series, by one of the fathers of Nordic Noir.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  As searing and gripping as they come  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  One of my very favourite Scandinavian authors  \u003cb\u003eIan Rankin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  The Norwegian Chandler  \u003cb\u003eJo Nesb \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ________________________ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bergen Private Investigator Varg Veum is perplexed when two wildly different cases cross his desk at the same time. A lawyer, anxious to protect her privacy, asks Varg to find her sister, who has disappeared with her husband, seemingly without trace, while a ship carrying unknown cargo is heading towards the Norwegian coast, and the authorities need answers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Varg immerses himself in the investigations, and it becomes clear that the two cases are linked, and have unsettling - and increasingly uncanny - similarities to events that took place thirty-six years earlier, when a woman and her saxophonist lover drove their car off a cliff, in an apparent double suicide. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As Varg is drawn into a complex case involving star-crossed lovers, toxic waste and illegal immigrants, history seems determined to repeat itself in perfect detail ... and at terrifying cost... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A chilling, dark and twisting story of love and revenge, Mirror Image is Staalesen at his most thrilling, thought-provoking best. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ________________________ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Every inch the equal of his Nordic confreres Henning Mankell and Jo Nesb   \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Staalesen continually reminds us he is one of the finest of Nordic novelists  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  There are only two other writers that I know of have achieved the depth of insight in detective writing that Staalesen has: Chandler, and Ross MacDonald ...  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMystery Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Employs Chandleresque similes with a Nordic Noir twist ... simply superb  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Masterful pacing  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  The Varg Veum series is more concerned with character and motivation than spectacle, and it's in the quieter scenes that the real drama lies  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHerald Scotland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of Henning Mankell, Jo Nesb , Jorn Lier Horst, Harlan Coben and Jussi Adler-Olsen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the fathers of the Nordic Noir genre, \u003cb\u003eGunnar Staalesen \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Bergen, Norway in 1947. He made his debut at the age of twenty-two with \u003ci\u003eSeasons of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e and in 1977 he published the first book in the Varg Veum series. He is the author of over twenty-three titles, which have been published in twenty-six countries and sold over five million copies. Twelve film adaptations of his Varg Veum crime novels have appeared since 2007, starring the popular Norwegian actor Trond Epsen Seim, and a further series is currently being filmed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon Bartlett \u003c\/b\u003ecompleted an MA in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia in 2000 and has since worked with a wide variety of Danish and Norwegian authors, including Jo Nesbø and Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum series: \u003ci\u003eWe Shall Inherit the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWolves in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e and the Petrona award-winning \u003ci\u003eWhere Roses Never Die\u003c\/i\u003e. 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