Alex Dahl

Alexandria Bockfeldt Dahl (born 1982), known as Alex Dahl, is an American/Norwegian crime novelist who writes in the Nordic noir genre. Her works have been translated into twelve languages, and she was described by Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet in 2019 as a new star of Nordic noir literature.

Her first novel, Før jeg forlater deg (Before I Leave You), was published in Norwegian under the name Alexandra Bockfeldt in 2013.

In 2018 her first English-language novel, The Boy at the Door, was published by Penguin Random House. The book was one of the most widely sold e-books in England at the time and was described by The Times as one of "the best crime fiction" books published in 2018. It has been translated into ten languages.

In 2019 she published the novel The Heart Keeper. In 2020, Dahl published Playdate.

Bibliography: 2013 – Før jeg forlater deg, Juritzen Forlag 2018 – The Boy at the Door, Penguin Random House 2019 – The Heart Keeper, Penguin Random House 2020- 'Playdate'