Introduction to a New (to Me!) Author

Winner of Norway’s Riverton Prize

I was introduced to a new writer in May—K.O. Dahl, referred to as the Norwegian Henning Mankell on the back cover of his latest book, The Man in the Window.

Discovering that this was not the first in a series, I had to order The Fourth Man, winner of Norway’s Riverton Prize for Best Crime Novel, and start at the beginning. I was so taken with this first book that I decided to review it, a wonderful pager-turner that was difficult to put down.

From that same back cover I found other Scandinavian authors to try: Arnaldur Indridason and Kjell Eriksson. They, however, will have to wait until another day—too many books and not enough time.   


By Nancy Jelinek
Broadening Horizons Blog