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A review by magup
Unwanted by Kristina Ohlsson
3.0
Once a year or so, I try to give mystery novels another chance. I want to like them the way I did when I first read PD James, Dorothy Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh as an undergrad.
Unwanted gets off to a good start and thankfully Ohlsson avoids much of the 'this jurisdiction battling with that jurisdiction/rogue detective' nonsense that clutters up so many detective stories. I was very happy to have the book along on our camping trip and it moved briskly along, with believable characters and an interesting story....right up to the part where it wrapped up so briskly (and perhaps improbably) that I kept wondering if I'd skipped a chapter or forgotten chunks I'd read late at night. Went back to check... but no.
Still, I liked it well enough to pick up another by this author next time I try to give detective novels a try.
Unwanted gets off to a good start and thankfully Ohlsson avoids much of the 'this jurisdiction battling with that jurisdiction/rogue detective' nonsense that clutters up so many detective stories. I was very happy to have the book along on our camping trip and it moved briskly along, with believable characters and an interesting story....right up to the part where it wrapped up so briskly (and perhaps improbably) that I kept wondering if I'd skipped a chapter or forgotten chunks I'd read late at night. Went back to check... but no.
Still, I liked it well enough to pick up another by this author next time I try to give detective novels a try.