Gunnar Staalesen
3 SeriesGunnar Staalesen is a Norwegian author renowned for his Scandinavian crime fiction, particularly the Varg Veum series. Born and raised in Bergen, Norway, he earned a Cand.philol degree from Universitetet i Bergen. Staalesen also worked at the main theatre in Bergen.
In Gunnar Staalesen's "Yours Until Death," private investigator Varg Veum uncovers a gang of thugs terrorizing single-mother families in Bergen, Norway. Led by a menacing figure named Joker, who disguises himself as a priest, the gang operates under the shadow of the Lyderhorn mountain. Veum first encounters the gang's brutality in their torture chamber, where he learns of the theft of an 8-year-old boy's bike, a crime overshadowed by more sinister events. As Veum delves deeper, his investigation leads him to the separated parents of the young victim, revealing a chilling escalation of criminal activities.
