Pursued by Death

A missing activist. A suspicious death. Can Varg Veum untangle the web of secrets before it's too late?
When Varg Veum reads the newspaper headline 'YOUNG MAN MISSING', he realises he's seen the youth just a few days earlier – at a crossroads in the countryside with his two friends. It turns out that the three were on their way to a demonstration against a commercial fish-farming facility in the tiny village of Solvik, north of Bergen.

Varg heads to Solvik, initially out of curiosity, but when he chances upon a dead body in the sea, he's pulled into a dark and complex web of secrets, feuds and jealousies. Is the body he's found connected to the death of a journalist who was digging into the fish farm's operations two years earlier? Or are the deaths the actions of the 'Village Beast' – the brutal small-town justice meted out by rural communities? Shocking, timely and full of breathtaking twists and turns, Pursued by Death reaffirms Gunnar Staalesen as one of the world's greatest crime writers. For readers of Nordic Noir, crime fiction, and fans of Gunnar Staalesen.