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Varg Veum Collection

12 titles · in release order

Varg Veum is the central character in a series of crime novels, written by Gunnar Staalesen, about a private detective who lives in Bergen, on the west coast of Norway. The books have been translated into several languages, including English, German, Swedish, and Danish. Three of the novels are available in English: Yours Until Death, At Night All Wolves Are Grey, and The Writing on the Wall.

Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers

Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers · 2007

Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers

MovieCrimeDrama

Karsten Aslaksen, chief engineer of a large chemical company, disappears without trace. His married lover, a successful politician named Vibeke Farang, approaches private investigator Varg Veum to track him down discreetly.

Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty

Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty · 2008

Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty

MovieCrimeThriller

After extricating 17-year-old Lisa Halle from a life of prostitution in Copenhagen, private investigator Varg Veum becomes ensnared in a tangle of parental neglect and bad love when he is hired to locate Lisa's boyfriend, Peter Werner.

Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels · 2008

MovieCrimeDrama

Jakob Aasen has hired his old friend, private investigator Varg Veum, to spy on his wife Rebecca, whom he suspects of infidelity. Against his better judgement Varg accepts the job, and in an ironic twist he and Rebecca rekindle their former love. Meanwhile a serial killer is targeting members of Jacob's band and their families...

Varg Veum - Buried Dogs

Varg Veum - Buried Dogs · 2008

Varg Veum - Buried Dogs

MovieThrillerCrime

Racial tension is running high in Bergen after a young black asylum seeker dies at the hands of the Police. Shortly afterwards, a right-wing politician is targeted by a gunman at a public rally and his wife is fatally wounded. Another member of the right-wing party, Marit Holm, approaches private investigator Varg Veum, insisting she is being stalked.

Varg Veum - Woman in the Fridge

Varg Veum - Woman in the Fridge · 2008

Varg Veum - Woman in the Fridge

MovieCrimeThriller

An international oil drilling company hires private investigator Varg Veum to find their missing systems designer, Arne Samuelsen. Varg discovers the headless body of a woman jammed into the fridge in Arne's apartment - and is promptly knocked unconscious. When he wakes up the body is gone and the Police has arrived.

Varg Veum - Yours Until Death

Varg Veum - Yours Until Death · 2008

Varg Veum - Yours Until Death

MovieDramaThriller

Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.

Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall

Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall · 2010

Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall

Varg Veum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher, and has calmed down his life, enjoying the domestic bliss with his new girlfriend Karin, but the idyll doesn't last long. Veum gets a brutal meeting with the past, when "The Knife" is released from prison, determined to take revenge on those who got him convicted for the murder of a teenage girl.

Varg Veum - Black Sheep

Varg Veum - Black Sheep · 2011

Varg Veum - Black Sheep

Varg Veum promises his girlfriend that he will find her sister who has vanished.

Varg Veum - At Night All Wolves Are Grey

Varg Veum - At Night All Wolves Are Grey · 2011

Varg Veum - At Night All Wolves Are Grey

Varg Veum investigates a case where his good friend Even, a highly decorated ex-army officer, is falsely accused of bombing Armakon, a weapons storage facility.

Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death

Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death · 2011

Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death

MovieCrimeMystery

Varg Veum investigates the murder of a married couple; prime suspect is the stepson, but Veum does not think he is guilty. Not even when he confesses.

Varg Veum - The Dead Have It Easy

Varg Veum - The Dead Have It Easy · 2012

Varg Veum - The Dead Have It Easy

MovieCrimeAction

Varg Veum tries to help a scared girl lost in the woods at night, but he fails to avoid her death. What was this young asylum seeker fleeing from?

Varg Veum - Cold Hearts

Varg Veum - Cold Hearts · 2012

Varg Veum - Cold Hearts

MovieCrimeThriller

Varg Veum is going to be a father. In a way he could never imagine, life takes on a new direction while he is searching for a missing pair of siblings in the prostitution circles in Bergen. Varg realizes that life will never be the same when he has to make a decision: Let the criminals go free or expose Karin to mortal danger.