The assistant
Dahl, Kjell Ola, 1958-2021
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Oslo, 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler's Germany has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia; there's a civil war in Spain and Mussolini reigns in Italy. When a woman turns up at the office of police-turned-private investigator Ludvig Paaske, he and his assistant - his one-time nemesis and former drug-smuggler Jack Rivers - begin a seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity. But all is not what it seems, and when Jack is accused of murder, the trail leads back to the 1920s, to prohibition-era Norway, to the smugglers, sex workers and hoodlums of his criminal past - and an extraordinary secret.
The assistant / Kjell Ola Dahl ; translated by Don Bartlett.
Dahl, Kjell Ola, 1958-, authorBartlett, Don, translator
London : Orenda Books, 2021.
293 pages ; 20 cm
Translated from the Norwegian.
9781913193652 (pbk. :)
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