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The Writing on the Wall
- Varg Veum
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Series: Varg Veum
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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- Ruth F
- 04-06-22
Needlessly constantly derogatory to women
Derogatory descriptives for female genitalia such as like a gaping bloodhound's muzzle, or a trussed chicken.
This guy does not like women.
Very offputting.
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- G. Mcandrew
- 11-05-20
Great story
Great story, would highly recommend to others. knew the authors name from BBC and NRK Isdal Girl podcast
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- Paul
- 23-10-18
Interesting twist
Story is pretty good with an interesting twist.
Narration is a touch bizarre with strange northern English accents instead of Norwegian
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- jonathan
- 16-03-18
another excellent book by Gunnar Staalesen with narration by Colin Mace
realistic characters, sustained suspense, good sense of place and time. hard to put down, great revealing of the ending without a big wrap it up to explain what happened
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- Mark
- 20-09-19
Varg Veum struggles through the seedy side
Varg Veum struggles through the seedy side of town looking for a missing teenager. He uncovers a well organised teenage prostitution operation, has his life threatened a number of times and maintains regular surprise developments right up until the end. An entertaining series in the top tier of my library.