Grønt støv - Sara Blædel

Title: Grønt støv (Louise Rick #1) (Green Dust)
Author: Sara Blædel
Genre: Crime
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 355 pages
Date read: May 2014, January 2021

One weekend, two murders. A young girl is found strangled in a park and a journalist has been killed in the courtyard behind the Royal Hotel

Detective Louise Rick is put on the case concerning the young girl, but quickly becomes involved in the other case as well, when it turns out that her best friend, Camilla Lind, crime reporter at Morgenavisen, knew the victim and is determined to solve it herself.

Louise tries to keep her friend from hedding into deep water, but Camilla isn't the type who listens to advice when she's on the trail of a good story... especially when people from the drug scene suddenly approach her.


Quite an interesting read, especially since it describes the life of a Danish police officer quite thoroughly and, according to a friend of mine who works for the police, rather accurately.

Quite amusing to read this after having gotten addicted to CSI and discovering how many things are much the same (like AFIS) and how many absolutely aren't (CSI are playing a bit fast and loose with how long it takes to get results from a DNA test).

I did think the friendship between Louise and Camilla was a bit more tell than show in this book unfortunately. It wasn't always entirely obvious why they were friends, but if I recall correctly this improves in the later books.