4.0 out of 5 stars -- Thrilling police procedural, the second in a series, featuring Assistant Detective Louise Rick of Copenhagen Police Department. Set in Denmark, this novel focuses on the online dating scene and a serial rapist and murderer. I like the writing and the characters -- Louise is ...
The premise of this book would probably make for a good hour-long CSI like CBS procedural show. It probably could make for a good book, too. But this book isn't good. It's awful. I don't know where the blame lays for how awful this book is. Maybe it is the translators fault. Maybe the book reads ...
Only One Life by Danish author Sara Blaedel is not so much a whodunit, I wouldn’t even say it’s a whydunit; it is, to put it gently, a “what the heck happened?” kind of book. This is one of those novels that have many layers. The first layer is made of facts, the second of hidden truths, the thir...
Louise ordered two beers in the hopes that maybe that would help them shake off the funereal mood a little, and as she took her first sip she realized she didn’t feel the least bit guilty about letting her partner hold the fort alone down on Valdemarsgade. At the morning briefing, Willumsen had m...
Camilla yelled into the phone as Louise sat squeezed in with Jonas in the front seat of the big four-wheeler. Eik had insisted that his blood alcohol level from the previous night had long since dropped and had gotten behind the wheel. “On our way home from Hvalsø. How are things with you guys?” ...
She stared confusedly at the dark-gray ceiling for a moment before realizing she was in her childhood bedroom, in Lerbjerg. Slowly, everything came back to her. She had taken the train from Holbæk after the meeting with René Gamst. Exhaustion had won out over anger as she ...