#BlogTour: The Lazarus Solution by Kjell Ola Dahl @ko_dahl @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours#TheLazarusSolution #KjellOlaDahl #RandomThingsTours #TeamOrenda

Book Synopsis:

Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk, who works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Sweden, is killed on his last cross-border mission to Norway.
 
Demobbed sailor Kai Fredly escapes from occupied Norway into Sweden, but finds that the murder of his Nazi-sympathiser brother is drawing the attention of the authorities on both sides of the border.
 
The Norwegian government, currently exiled in London, wants to know what happened to their courier, and the job goes to writer Jomar Kraby, whose first suspect is a Norwegian refugee living in Sweden … a refugee with a past as horrifying as the events still to come … a refugee named Kai Fredly…
 
Both classic crime and a stunning exposé of Norwegian agents in Stockholm during the Second World War, The Lazarus Solution is a compulsive, complex and dazzling historical thriller from one of the genre’s finest writers.
 
For fans of Sebastian Faulks, Lars Mytting, Mick Herron and Robert Harris.

My Review:

The Lazarus Solution is a tense, atmospheric thriller that I really enjoyed.

Firstly I loved the author’s fabulous descriptions of Wartime Sweden that made me able to visualise it in my mind. It was definitely an interesting country to be in during the war as although it was neutral it still had evidence of the war in its daily life It also had to deal with the constant threat of attack or infiltration of Nazi or communist forces which made for a very intense atmosphere. I’d previously assumed that life had just continued on as normal so found it fascinating to and slightly shocking to see otherwise.

The two main characters were very intriguing and I enjoyed getting to know them throughout the book. Kraby was my favourite character as I liked that he initially seemed like a stereotypical character down on his luck with a drinking problem and a slightly dodgy past but was actually a very competent guy. I felt very sorry him as he obviously felt regret for some of his past actions. Fredly on the other hand seemed a very suspicious character who I wasn’t sure I could trust. As the book continues it becomes apparent that he’s not telling the truth about something which got me very intrigued about what might be revealed.

This book did start of slowly but soon became very gripping indeed. I loved discovering more about the background of the characters and how it was influencing current events. The ending was very exciting and unexpected which I always love. I’m very excited to read more from this author soon.

Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Orenda for my digital copy of this book.

About The Author:

Kjell Ola Dahl was born in the city Gjovik, in Norway in 1958, but grew up in Oslo. Dahl was a teacher and social adviser in High school when he started to write the Oslo Detectives series. Two times Dahl has won the Riverton-prize, the Norwegian National prize for the best novel of crime fiction (in 2000 and in 2015). He won the prestigious Brage-prize for the Courier, a standalone novel of crime fiction set in Norway and Sweden during World War II and in 1967. The first book in the series of the Oslo Detectives – Lethal investments – was published in in Norway 1993. Dahl lives on the farm Torgunrud in Feiring, by the lake Mjosa.