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Kjell Ola Dahl Books in Order

Kjell Ola Dahl has written 13 books, published between 1993 and 2023. The first book is Lethal Investments (1993) and the newest is The Lazarus Solution (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
1993–2023
Pages on record
1,888 in 6 of 13 books
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Kjell Ola Dahl is a Norwegian crime writer, published at times as K. O. Dahl. His Oslo Detectives novels follow Frolich and Gunnarstranda, run to eleven books of Nordic noir, and six have appeared in English in Don Bartlett's translation. The catalogue begins with Lethal Investments (1993) and continues through The Man in the Window (2001), Little Drummer (2003), Faithless (2010) and The Courier (2015) to The Lazarus Solution (2023).

How many Kjell Ola Dahl books are there?

Kjell Ola Dahl has 13 books, released between 1993 and 2023. 9 of them belong to the Oslo Detectives series.

Kjell Ola Dahl Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Kjell Ola Dahl books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Lethal Investments by Kjell Ola Dahl, book 1 of the Oslo Detectives series (1993)
  2. Cover of The Last Fix by Kjell Ola Dahl, book 2 of the Oslo Detectives series (2000)
  3. Cover of The Man in the Window by Kjell Ola Dahl, book 3 of the Oslo Detectives series (2001)
  4. Cover of The Fourth Man by Kjell Ola Dahl, book 5 of the Oslo Detectives series (2005)
  5. Cover of Faithless by Kjell Ola Dahl, book 7 of the Oslo Detectives series (2010)
  6. Cover of The Courier by Kjell Ola Dahl (2015)
  1. 1
    Lethal InvestmentsOslo Detectives #11993 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993352
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  2. 2
    The Last FixOslo Detectives #22000 · 375 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000375
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  3. 3
    The Man in the WindowOslo Detectives #32001 · confirmed 2/4
    2001–
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  4. 4
    Little DrummerOslo Detectives #42003 · confirmed 2/4
    2003–
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  5. 5
    The Fourth ManOslo Detectives #52005 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005288
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  6. 6
    Svart engelOslo Detectives #62007 · confirmed 2/4
    2007–
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  7. 7
    FaithlessOslo Detectives #72010 · 265 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2010265
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  8. 8
    The Ice SwimmerOslo Detectives #82011 · 332 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011332
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  9. 9
    The Courier2015 · 276 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015276
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  10. 10
    Kureren2016 · confirmed 2/4
    2016–
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  11. 11
    SisterOslo Detectives #92020 · confirmed 2/4
    2020–
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  12. 12
    The Assistant2021 · confirmed 2/4
    2021–
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  13. 13
    The Lazarus Solution2023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
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Kjell Ola Dahl books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Oslo Detectives in order

9 books
  1. 1. Lethal Investments
  2. 2. The Last Fix
  3. 3. The Man in the Window
  4. 4. Little Drummer
  5. 5. The Fourth Man
  6. 6. Svart engel
  7. 7. Faithless
  8. 8. The Ice Swimmer
  9. 9. Sister

Standalone books

4 books

4 Kjell Ola Dahl titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Kjell Ola Dahl books in order?

You only need to read Kjell Ola Dahl books in order within the Oslo Detectives series, which holds 9 of the 13 Kjell Ola Dahl books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Kjell Ola Dahl

Start with Lethal Investments (1993), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Kjell Ola Dahl book?

The Lazarus Solution (2023) is the newest Kjell Ola Dahl book released so far.

Is there a new Kjell Ola Dahl book coming?

No next Kjell Ola Dahl book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Kjell Ola Dahl at a glance

Paused
No new Kjell Ola Dahl title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Kjell Ola Dahl books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,888 pages across the 6 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 310 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Kjell Ola Dahl books, 5 of 13, were published in the 2000s.

What the Kjell Ola Dahl books are about

7 of the 13 Kjell Ola Dahl books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective, police procedural is tagged on 5 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.