<p><b><font>''The Norwegian Chandler'' Jo Nesb¿</font></b><br><b><font>''One of my very favourite Scandinavian authors'' Ian Rankin</b><b></font></b><b><br><font>MORE THAN FIVE MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE</font></b><br><b><font>A dramatic, poetic and page-turning thriller from Norway''s most dazzling crime writer</b><b>.</font></b><br><br>On a frosty January day in Bergen, Private Detective Varg Veum is visited by a prostitute. Her friend Margrethe has disappeared and hasn''t been seen for days. Before her disappearance, something had unsettled her: she''d turned away a customer and returned to the neighbourhood in terror. Shortly after taking the case, Veum is confronted with a brutal, uneasy reality. He soon finds the first body - and it won''t be the last either. His investigation leads him into a dark subculture where corrupted idealism has had deadly consequences.<br><br>Dark secrets lurk everywhere, as the murky pattern of wounded people,