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Kristina Ohlsson

Kristina Ohlsson
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Kristina Ohlsson

Kristina Ohlsson is a counterterrorism officer in Europe and has worked as a security police analyst for the National Swedish Police Board. Originally from southern Sweden, she now lives in Vienna, Austria.

Unwanted will be released on November 20, 2012 in Trade Paperback
about 14 hours ago
Unwanted will be released on February 28, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Feb 28, 2012
Unwanted is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Feb 28, 2012
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Unwanted
Jan 21, 2012

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Hollywood Reporter, April 30, 2012
...production group NICE Drama has snatched up the rights to a trio of novels by young crime writer Kristina Ohlsson. The deal, which hopes to follow on such Scandi crime success stories as The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and The Killing, will see NICE...
Oakland Township Patch, April 16, 2012
...your thing – think Jason Bourne - this might be the book for you. Unwanted: A Novel by Kristina Ohlsson There has been no shortage of Scandinavian crime novels since the overwhelming success of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. In...
Los Angeles Times, April 5, 2012
...of them, The Mind’s Eye, received the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy prize for new authors in 1993. Kristina Ohlsson: One of Sweden’s best younger writers, Ohlsson is a counterterrorism officer with the Vienna-based Organization for Security and...
Star Ledger, March 25, 2012
...Another nice touch is the chapter headlines that capture how the media are covering this bizarre adventure. Unwanted Kristina Ohlsson Atria Books, 368 pp., $25 A missing child — always heart-wrenching. Thus a good jumping-off point for the first novel...
Carroll County Online, March 9, 2012
...oral history of London took five years to complete and is perfect for the armchair traveler. ”Unwanted,” by Kristina Ohlsson “Unwanted” is another Swedish crime import and the start of a series. Here, a child disappears from a train and is found...
NOLA Live, March 7, 2012
..."Unwanted" by Kristina Ohlsson, translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death; Atria Books ($25) A child disappears from a crowded train near Stockholm, seemingly without a trace, her red shoes left behind. Soon...
Dallas Morning News, March 4, 2012
...A child disappears from a crowded train near Stockholm, seemingly without a trace, her red shoes left behind. Soon, her body shows up outside the emergency room of a hospital hundreds of miles away. Throw in a crazed serial killer and investigators with...
Dallas Morning News, March 4, 2012
...A child disappears from a crowded train near Stockholm, seemingly without a trace, her red shoes left behind. Soon, her body shows up outside the emergency room of a hospital hundreds of miles away. Throw in a crazed serial killer and investigators with...
PublishersWeekly.com, February 24, 2012
...Fountain by Eliza Factor (Akashic, $15.95; ISBN 978-1617750366). Lone Wolfby Jodi Picoult (Atria, $28; ISBN 978-1-4391-0274-9). Unwantedby Kristina ohlsson, trans. from the Swedish by Sarah Death (Atria/Emily Bestler, $25; ISBN 978-1-4391-9889-6). Feed...
seattlepi.com, February 16, 2012
...Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 09:43 p.m., Wednesday, February 15, 2012 Not wanting to disturb her...
Blogcritics.org, February 14, 2012
...I cannot think of a topic more terrifying to any reader than that of child abduction! While a kidnapping probably has never happened to any of us, we secretly hope it never occurs to any parent, particularly when the abductor has obviously abused the...
Examiner.com, February 1, 2012
...Touchstone (Glass Thorns) by Melanie Rawn Trail of the Spellmans (Spellmans) by Lisa Lutz Unwanted (Fredericka Bergman) by Kristina Ohlsson Victims (Alex Delaware) by Jonathan Kellerman Watergate by Thomas Mallon What We Talk About When We Talk About...
Petrona, October 13, 2011
...Denmark)Kjell Eriksson - The Hand that Trembles (Sweden)Bernhard Jaumann - The Hour of the Jackal (Germany)Kristina Ohlsson - Unwanted (Sweden)Petros Markaris - Basic Shareholder (Greece)Valerio Varesi - The Dark Valley (Italy)Camilla Lackberg - The...