A private eye gets a job hunting a missing woman from a half-sister he never met in Big Sister by Gunnar Staalesen. Soon our aging but determined PI is mixed up with a motorcycle gang and a long-buried sexual assault amidst a myriad of other crimes.
Staalesen is riffing on Raymond Chandler, from the title (cribbed from The Little Sister) on through to his terse style and murky family dynamics.
I enjoyed this thoroughly and was deeply surprised to find out this story was some twenty novels in, and that Staalesen and his protagonist are huge in Norway, having also spawned a dozen or more movies and a commemorative statue (seen in a photo at the beginning of this book!). I would definitely say more of Stallesen's writings need to be translated into English as only a few seem available.
Recommended for crime fans. I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly.
Staalesen is riffing on Raymond Chandler, from the title (cribbed from The Little Sister) on through to his terse style and murky family dynamics.
I enjoyed this thoroughly and was deeply surprised to find out this story was some twenty novels in, and that Staalesen and his protagonist are huge in Norway, having also spawned a dozen or more movies and a commemorative statue (seen in a photo at the beginning of this book!). I would definitely say more of Stallesen's writings need to be translated into English as only a few seem available.
Recommended for crime fans. I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly.
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