# Cold Hearts

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- Book: [Cold Hearts](https://www.bookquiver.com/gunnar-staalesen/cold-hearts) ([Cold Hearts.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gunnar-staalesen/cold-hearts.md))
- Authors: [Gunnar Staalesen](https://www.bookquiver.com/gunnar-staalesen)
- Publisher: Arcadia Parent Imprint
- ISBN: 978-19-0812-943-7
- Published: 2013-06-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'The Norwegian Chandler' Jo Nesbø 'One of my very favourite Scandinavian authors' Ian Rankin MORE THAN FIVE MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE A dramatic, poetic and page-turning thriller from Norway's most dazzling crime writer. 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. Dark secrets lurk everywhere, as the murky pattern of wounded people, worm-eaten lives, and hearts long grown cold proves deadly . . . for someone. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett