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Sara Blaedel

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in Copenhagen, Denmark

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http://sarablaedel.com/

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Mystery, Thriller, Crime

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Ed McBain ...more

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December 2011

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Sara Blaedel is the author of the #1 international bestselling series featuring Detective Louise Rick. Her books are published in thirty-seven countries. In 2014 Sara was voted Denmark’s most popular novelist for the fourth time. She is also a recipient of the Golden Laurel, Denmark’s most prestigious literary award.

In 2016 she published the first book "The Undertakers Daughter" in a new trilogy set in Racine, Wisconsin:

Already widowed by the age of forty, Ilka Nichols Jensen, a school portrait photographer, leads a modest, regimented, and uneventful life in Copenhagen. Until unexpected news rocks her quiet existence: Her father–who walked out suddenly and inexplicably on the family more than three decades ago–has died. And he’s left her ...more

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Average rating: 3.58 · 61,818 ratings · 5,754 reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Forgotten Girls (Louise Rick #7) by Sara Blaedel (Goodreads Author), Signe Rød Golly (translator) 3.57 avg rating — 18,108 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Killing Forest (Louise Rick, #8) 3.69 avg rating — 6,338 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Woman (Louise Rick #9) by Sara Blaedel (Goodreads Author), Mark Kline (translator) 3.63 avg rating — 4,770 ratings — published 2017 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Call Me Princess (Louise Rick #2) 3.47 avg rating — 4,315 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Midnight Witness (Louise Rick #1) 3.35 avg rating — 4,348 ratings — published 2004 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Drowned Girl (Louise Rick, #3) 3.66 avg rating — 3,179 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Farewell to Freedom (Louise Rick, #4) 3.63 avg rating — 2,881 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Undertaker's Daughter (Ilka Jensen, #1) by Sara Blaedel (Goodreads Author), Mark Kline (Translator) 3.15 avg rating — 3,296 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Harmless Lie (Louise Rick #10) 3.64 avg rating — 2,776 ratings — published 2019 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Running Girl (Louise Rick #5) 3.73 avg rating — 2,344 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Sara Blaedel

Louise Rick (12 books)
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Sara Blaedel (Goodreads Author),

Signe Rød Golly (translator)

3.60 avg rating — 53,252 ratings

Missing Persons Trilogy (3 books)
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Sara Blaedel (Goodreads Author),

Mark Kline (translator)

3.61 avg rating — 29,257 ratings

Homicide Trilogy (3 books)
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Sara Blaedel (Goodreads Author)

3.48 avg rating — 11,842 ratings

Camilla Trilogy (3 books)
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3.71 avg rating — 7,087 ratings

Ilka Jensen (5 books)
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3.37 avg rating — 6,044 ratings

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“It brings me peace to know that it all began with crime fiction as a child, and that it is there, after a thousand detours, that I have landed again. As a child I found peace in crime novels, and it is with them that I find peace today. There has been some turbulence along the way, but I wouldn’t have avoided any of it. I wouldn’t have reached the place I have without all of it happening.”
― Sara Blaedel

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“What do you want to get away from?' she repeated and put her hands around his face. Finally he turned his head and looked at her with pain in his eyes and a dry laugh. 'Me,' he said. 'It's completely trivial. A lonely heart and pain and something that never heals.”
― Sara Blaedel, The Forgotten Girls

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“she was the kind of person willing to give up sex if it meant also giving up the pressure of having to be something for someone else. “Do”
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