Little Drummer

The next instalment of the Gunnerstranda/Frølich series following the brilliant Faithless, The Ice Swimmer and Sister, and once again a sterling example of why Scandinavian crime fiction is so far in its reach, and so brilliant in its execution… Reminding me strongly of the late, great Henning Mankel......more

Following the fairly recent publication of two standalone novels The Courier and The Assistant by Kjell Ola Dahl, Little Drummer is a return to his long standing Oslo Detectives series. In contrast to the historical thriller aspects of the aforementioned books, the series can be described as a colle......more

4.5* rounded up to 5* A body of a young woman is found in a car in an underground car park. As drug paraphernalia were found next to the body, the pathologist gives the verdict of a drug overdose. When Oslo detectives Gunnarstranda and Frølich begin their investigation, they discover that the victim n......more

Little Drummer is the fourth book in Kjell Ola Dahl's Oslo Detectives series; originally published in Norway in 2003, the technology within may be dated but the issues explored here feel bang up to date and it can easily be enjoyed as a stand-alone or, as I did, read as a sort of prequel to later in......more

A scared journalist discovers a woman seated motionless in her car in an underground carpark. She is dead from a drugs overdose and at first sight it seems to be a case of suicide or accidental death. Detective Gunnarstranda has his doubts though and orders an autopsy, which reveals that she was drug......more