num_pages: 285
description: September 1977. Mette Misvr a three-year-old girl disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her tiny close middle-class community in the tranquil suburb of Nordas is devastated but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Curtains twitch suspicions are raised but Mette is never found. Almost 25 years later as the expiry date for the statute of limitations draws near Mettes mother approaches PI Varg Veum in a last desperate attempt to find out what happened to her daughter. As Veum starts to dig he uncovers an intricate web of secrets lies and shocking events that have been methodically concealed. When another brutal incident takes place a pattern begins to emerge Shocking unsettling and full of extraordinary twists and turns Where Roses Never Die reaffirms Gunnar Staalesen as one of the worlds foremost thriller writers.
language: English
title: Where Roses Never Die
publisher: Orenda Books