Unni Turrettini is a writer, lawyer, citizen activist and international speaker on a mission to end loneliness and create a more connected society. She was born in Kautokeino, Norway. Her first book The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer: Anders Behring Breivik and the Threat of Terror in Plain Sight, published on November 15, 2015, is the story of Anders Behring Breivik and the Norway Massacre on July 22, 2011. The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer is an Amazon best seller and won the Silver Falchion Award for best adult non-fiction in 2016. She is also co-author of Once Upon a Fact, a collection of short-fiction stories inspired by famous fairytales.
Life and career
Turrettini was born and raised in Norway. She graduated high school as an AFS exchange student at Shawnee Mission South High School, a suburb of Kansas City, Kansas, in 1989–1990, as well as from Drammen Gymnas, Norway in 1992. She holds a Cand. Jur. Degree in law from the University of Oslo Law Faculty and has an LL.M. in American Law from Boston University School of Law. She is also a member of The New York Bar. She worked as a lawyer in Paris, France from 1999 to 2004 and in finance in Geneva, Switzerland from 2005 to 2008. After Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 and injured hundreds more in Norway in 2011, Turrettini started researching the massacre in search of a sense of understanding. Part of her research involved speaking with experts, including former FBI Special Agent Kathleen M. Puckett who was involved in the investigation that lead to the capture of Ted Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, in 1995. Turrettini has participated in several TEDx Talk events, including TEDx Institut Le Rosey and TEDx Youngstown. Other presentations by Turrettini include talks at the Occidental College Mckinnon Center for Global Affairs, the University of California, Berkeley and The American-Scandinavian Foundation's Scandinavia House headquarters in New York City. She was featured on KMPH-TVFox News in Fresno, California discussing her book The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer.
