Maybe Ohlsson has already fixed that flaw. As such, no character gets sufficient development, and readers wind up not caring much about any of them. Instead, she gives readers a trio of protagonists, alternating scenes between Bergman, her police supervisor and another police investigator. The novel would have worked better if Ohlsson had focused even more on Bergman. Unmarried, she has maintained a long relationship with a married man and has come to the point in her life where she thinks she wants to have a child, through adoption. While Bergman is no Lisbeth Salander, the avenging angel of Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy," she is an interesting character. Ohlsson introduces Frederika Bergman, a novice civilian investigator trying to win the respect of her police co-workers, who are mostly male. But in "Unwanted," the attempted surprises are only literary head fakes. Sudden twists like this are part of the genre. See More CollapseĪt another point, an assistant to the police investigators suddenly becomes convinced that the killer is her new boyfriend and that he has abducted her children. By Kristina Ohlsson, translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death.Ītria Books, 368 pp., $25.
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