After more than a decade of enormous success in his home country, Kjell Ola Dahl - the master of Norwegian crime writing - is now gaining wider recognition abroad with his intelligent crime novels. Dubbed ‘the Norwegian Mankell', his skilful plots, literary prose and dark, drily humorous stories have scooped the country's most prestigious crime novel award, The Riverton Prize, as well as helped his fictional Detective Inspectors Gunnarstranda and Frølich achieve cult status. He has published two novels in English, The Fourth Man and The Man In The Window, with a third due in June 2009.
