Literary Hub , A Most Anticipated Book of the Year "Johansson''s debut novel, Antiquity , was a slow burn, sensual and troubling. Her follow-up--a thriller about two young women who spark up a suffocating romance after one accidentally takes the other''s coat in a café--sounds a little like Single White Female , a little like Vertigo , and exactly like the queer doppelgänger story I''ve been dying to read." --Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture "In the grand tradition of All About Eve and Mulholland Drive and 3 Women , Johansson''s novel is a strange, twisty story about obsession and identity and how easy it can be to lose yourself completely." --McKayla Coyle, Literary Hub "Thrilling, seductive, and unsettling . This lights-out, under-the-covers read delivers a captivating account of desire, obsession, and the ghosts within us." -- Booklist "Clean, poetic, and endlessly enticing, this windy tale of obsession had me hooked and spooked. Single White Female with a chicly bleak Scandinavian sensibility." --Brittany Newell, author of Soft Core "A razor sharp novel of exquisite prose and uncanny tension, Body Double lures the unsuspecting reader into a sophisticated hall of mirrors where obsession blurs the lines between self and other.

Bravo!" --Antoine Wilson, author of Mouth to Mouth "Hanna Johansson is Hitchcock-like . She puts her reader in a state of constant tension . Reading Body Double is like following a game of cups and balls with concentration, letting your eyes focus on the cup under which you think the ball is hiding . The dizzying uncertainty contributes to the strange atmosphere of a novel in which Hanna Johansson raises the stakes considerably and leads the reader into an intricately constructed hall of mirrors of exquisite prose." -- Svenska Dagbladet "The first thing I want to do after finishing Hanna Johansson''s second novel is to read it again . Body Double is not only a masterful novel in the footsteps of the film, it is a story about loneliness and about being created in someone else''s eyes. But also about what remains in the absence of that person." -- Aftonbladet "An incredibly successful thriller in the spirit of Hitchcock .

Stylistically, Johansson works with repetition, displacement, confusion, and resolution. A coat temporarily changes hands--and everything is thrown into turmoil. It is incredibly well done from beginning to end." -- Göteborgs-Posten "[Johansson] writes the eerie thriller atmosphere very skilfully and engagingly. Here, every little detail, however insignificant it may seem, sooner or later puts everything at stake. The novel is imbued with a film aesthetic, particularly nineties horror, but also with a Paul Austerian urban environment of oppressive claustrophobia and paranoia, together with a voyeurism derived from Hitchcock. Just like the characters in the novel, I as a reader am forced to look over my shoulder and question what is real." -- Sydsvenskan "It is skilfully executed, the kind of work of art that you admire from half a meter away and think I will never be that good.

But it is precisely these images and moods that haunt me after reading. Not the people, and not the feelings. Because I know that real life is not that beautiful. It doesn''t matter--I admire the text anyway. From a distance." -- Expressen " Body Double is a book about obsession--which you can easily become obsessed with . The novel''s aesthetically pleasing world-building is at least as well-written as its thriller plot . Body Double is a novel for all of us who are obsessed: with the strangely uncanny, with beautiful things, and with obsession itself.

Johansson shows great control and skilful craftsmanship--there is no doubt that she has done a very good job of following up her acclaimed debut." -- Lundagård.