Book Synopsis:
Exploring his own dark memories may be the only way to find a killer
When Bergen PI Varg Veum finds himself at the funeral of a former classmate on a sleet-grey December afternoon, he’s unexpectedly reunited with his old friend Jakob guitarist of the once-famous 1960s rock band The Harpers and his estranged wife, Rebecca, Veum’s first love.
Their rekindled friendship is thrown into jeopardy by the discovery of a horrific murder, and Veum is forced to dig deep into his own adolescence and his darkest memories, to find a motive and a killer.
Tense, vivid and deeply unsettling, Fallen Angels is the spellbinding, award-winning thriller that secured Gunnar Staalesen’s reputation as one of the world’s foremost crime writers.
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My Review:
Fallen Angels is a rich, satisfying and thought provoking read which is a great addition to the series.
Firstly this isn’t a fast paced thriller but I actually quite liked that as it gave me time to understand the characters and the setting more. The reader is given time to understand Varg’s past, his relationships and the impact they have had throughout his life. I felt this was a nice touch and gave me a more in-depth look into how the character thinks and what makes him tick.
The story is told in two timelines one following the investigation in the present day (1980s) and the other flashing back to Varg’s past in the 1960’s. I liked that both timelines managed to be distinctive with little details of the era shining through. It was very interesting to see how differently things were done and how people used to think. Some of the scenes did have me rolling my eyes, as if people acted like that now they’d get themselves into trouble.
The tension in the book slowly increases as we discover more about what is going on. There are some quite dark parts to the book which might not be to everyone’s taste, however I felt they were more implied then anything else so the reader is spared the more gruesome details. The ending was shocking but ultimately satisfying and I look forward to reading more from this author in the future.
Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Orenda for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
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 crime fiction. 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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