The Ice Swimmer

The sixth in the "Oslo Detective" series has Lena Stigersand juggling personal problems with a political murder, calling her powers of detection along with those of Gunnarstranda and Frolich back into effect. Kjell Ola Dahl is set to tour the UK in February and again in April, commencing with Newcastle Noir.

One of the fathers of the Nordic Noir genre, Kjell Ola Dahl was born in 1958 in Gjøvik. He made his debut in 1993, and has since published thirteen novels, the most prominent of which is a series of police procedurals cum psychological thrillers featuring investigators Gunnarstranda and Frølich. In 2000 he won the Riverton Prize for The Last Fix and he won both the prestigious Brage and Riverton Prizes for The Courier in 2015. His work has been published in 14 countries, and he lives in Oslo.