Tessa (novel)

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author = Margit Sandemo
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language = Swedish, Norwegian
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genre = Crime novel
publisher = Boknöje AB
release_date = 1997
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media_type = Pocket book
pages = 142
isbn = ISBN 91-7710-940-6
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"Tessa" was a novel published by Margit Sandemo in 1997, though it was completed by 1970. She had originally planned to publish it as a serial in a Norwegian weekly magazine, but the editors of magazine abandoned it. The novel went missing for the next 25 years, until Sandemo found a copy in a cupboard in 1995.

"Tessa" is the story of Tessa, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl who has a vivacious imagination but is, in spite of this, a loner. There is a crime or a riddle to solve in that novel, which is typical of Margit Sandemo. The story begins when a burglar makes a wrong phone number. He inadvertently calls Tessa and tells her about his upcoming crime. Tessa plans to check his intentions.