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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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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 · 64,869 ratings · 5,967 reviews · 37 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Forgotten Girls (Louise Rick #7) by Sara Blaedel (Goodreads Author), Signe Rød Golly (translator) 3.57 avg rating — 18,648 ratings — published 2011 — 4 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 — 6,577 ratings — published 2015 — 4 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 — 4,965 ratings — published 2017 — 3 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) 3.37 avg rating — 4,717 ratings — published 2004 — 2 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) 3.48 avg rating — 4,472 ratings — published 2005 — 55 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) 3.67 avg rating — 3,312 ratings — published 2007 — 48 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 — 3,001 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) 3.14 avg rating — 3,423 ratings — published 2016 — 23 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 — 2,935 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) 3.72 avg rating — 2,445 ratings — published 2009 — 22 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

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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 — 55,575 ratings

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

Mark Kline (translator)

3.61 avg rating — 30,235 ratings

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

3.49 avg rating — 12,501 ratings

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

3.70 avg rating — 7,400 ratings

Ilka Jensen (5 books)
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Sara Blaedel (Goodreads Author)

3.37 avg rating — 6,481 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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