The Assistant : Orenda Books : 9781913193652 : 1913193659 : 20 May 2021 : A seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity leads a PI and his ex-con assistant on a murderous trail, in a sophisticated, riveting, cunningly plotted historical thriller set in interwar and prohibition-era Norway. ?An expertly crafted unravelling of mixed loyalties, love, lust, lies and trust, set against the background of a world increasingly on the edge of all-out war' John Harvey 'Dark, gritty and compulsive ? feels like a classic of the genre' William Ryan ?A stylish standalone thriller ? Dahl ratchets up the tension from the first pages and never lets go' Sunday Times ???????????????????????? 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 assi