Summer, 1943. When a courier for Sweden's Press and Military Office is killed on his final mission, the Norwegian government-in-exile appoints a writer to find the missing documents ... breathtaking WW2 thriller.
Kjell Ola Dahl Book order
This author is celebrated for his gripping detective novels featuring the Oslo detectives Frank Frølich and Inspector Gunnarstranda. His work is marked by a keen insight into human nature and intricate plots that keep readers on the edge of their seats. Through compelling narratives, he explores the darker aspects of society and the complexities of the human psyche. Readers appreciate his authentic voice and masterful storytelling within the crime fiction genre.







- 2023
- 2022
Godfather of Nordic Noir Kjell Ola Dahl returns with tense, sophisticated, searingly relevant international thriller that explodes the Nordic Noir genre, as Frolich and Gunnarstranda investigate the death of a woman whose scientist boyfriend has also gone missing...
- 2021
The Assistant
- 276 pages
- 10 hours of reading
A seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity leads a PI and his ex-con assistant on a murderous trail, in a sophisticated, riveting, cunningly plotted historical thriller set in interwar and prohibition-era Norway.
- 2020
Sister
- 276 pages
- 10 hours of reading
The Oslo Detectives are back in another chilling slice of Nordic Noir ... Frolich searches for the mysterious sister of a young female asylum seeker, but when people start to die, everything points to an old case and a series of events that someone will do anything to hide...
- 2019
The Courier
- 276 pages
- 10 hours of reading
The international bestselling godfather of Nordic Noir takes on one of the most horrific periods of modern history, in a stunning standalone thriller
- 2018
The Ice Swimmer
- 332 pages
- 12 hours of reading
The Oslo Detectives are back in another slice of gripping, dark Nordic Noir, and their new colleague has more at stake than she's prepared to reveal...
- 2017
Faithless
- 265 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Godfather of Nordic Noir returns with Gunnarstranda and Frolich's most challenging case yet, in Book Four of the Oslo Detectives Series.
- 2011
Lethal Investments
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Gripping and well plotted Scandinavian crime from a master, for all fans of Jo Nesbo.
- 2009
The Last Fix
- 570 pages
- 20 hours of reading
The discovery of Katrine's corpse the following day brings police officers Gunnarstranda and Frolich onto the case and into a world of secrets and lies that stretches back generations. In a world of secrets can the Oslo Detectives find out the truth about these grisly murders in time before the killer strikes again...?
- 2008
The Man in the Window
- 496 pages
- 18 hours of reading
In the early hours of the following morning he is found stabbed to death in his shop, his naked body exposed in the shop's window, a red string tied round his neck, and three crosses and a number - 195 - written across his chest.
