CHRISTINA WAHLDÉN
CHRISTINA WAHLDÉN is an award-winning author and journalist. Her debut was made in 1998 with the youth novel Kort kjol (Short skirt) that deals with rape. She has since then written more than 70 books for children, young adults and adults.
During her years as a crime reporter at the morning paper Svenska Dagbladet, she mainly covered violence against women and girls, such as sexual crimes and honor-related violence, and many of her books deal with crime. She has an exam in Journalism from Gothenburg University but has also studied theater history at Stockholm University and dramaturgy in Australia at University of New South Wales in Sydney. She is a member of the Swedish Academy of Crime Fiction and Swedish PEN.
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PUBLISHED 2024 harper collins
GENRE HISTORICAL SUSPENSE
PAGES 311
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On the tiny island Enholmen in the inlet to the strategically located harbour of Slite on northeast Gotland, strange things are happening late in the summer of 1944. Soldiers are found murdered and World War II is still raging outside Sweden. On a remote farm, the police sisters Svea and Rut are getting trained in stealthy killing and learning morse code under British command together with countess Lussan Kagg and her group of resistance women. After that, the cell travels to Slite, in disguise and undercover, to try and solve the mystery at Enholmen. A very skillful mask designer at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm is helping them with the details. The amount of Baltic refugees arriving in small open boats are increasing and the situation is escalating. At this time, Stockholm is called the Casablanca of the North, due to all the spies living in the capital. At Grand Hôtel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has set up a press room for foreign correspondents. Lussan does not get the support she wants from her younger brother Angus, but is involuntary entrapped in a crime involving him. Looted art from the continent and unconventional surveillance methods are some of the ingredients in the sequel to the popular historical crime novel Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare.
LESSONS IN UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE