Friday 7 January 2022

Bitter Flowers by Gunnar Staalesen BLOG TOUR #BitterFlowers #GunnarStaalesen @OrendaBooks #VargVeum #NordicNoir

 


PI Varg Veum has returned to duty following a stint in rehab, but his new composure and resolution are soon threatened when a challenging assignment arrives on his desk.

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.

As the threads of these apparently unrelated crimes come together, against the backdrop of a series of shocking environmental crimes, Varg Veum faces the most challenging, traumatic investigation of his career.


Bitter Flowers by Gunnar Staalesen is published in paperback by Orenda Books on 20 January 2022. It is translated by Don Bartlett.  
I am delighted to be able to offer one paperback copy of Bitter Flowers today as a giveaway. Entry is simple, just fill out the competition widget in this post.  UK entries only please.

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One of the fathers of Nordic Noir, Gunnar Staalesen was born in Bergen, Norway, in 1947. 

He made his debut at the age of twenty-two with Seasons of Innocence and in 1977 he published the first book in the Varg Veum series. 
He is the author of over twenty titles, which have been published in twenty-four countries and sold over four million copies. 
Twelve film adaptations of his Varg Veum crime novels have appeared since 2007, starring the popular Norwegian actor Trond Espen Seim. Staalesen has won three Golden Pistols (including the Prize of Honour) and Where Roses Never Die won the 2017 Petrona Award for Nordic Crime Fiction, and Big Sister was shortlisted in 2019. 
He lives with his wife in Bergen.




Don Bartlett completed 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: We Shall Inherit the Wind, Wolves in the Dark and the Petrona award-winning Where Roses Never Die. 

He also translated Faithless, the previous book in Kjell Ola Dahl’s Oslo Detective series for Orenda Books. 

He lives with his family in a village in Norfolk.








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