Dødesporet - Sara Blædel

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Title: Dødesporet (The Death Trail) (Louise Rick #8)
Author: Sara Blædel
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 4.5/5
# pages: 314 pages
Date read: October 2014, November 2021

The Death Trail is an almost overgrown trail in a forrest close to Roskilde. It got its name from olden days where people used it to transport their dying friends and family to the large sacrificial oak to offer some of their blood to the old Nordic gods, in the hope that they would welcome them when they died.

But now it looks as if somebody is using the Death Trail again - or so Louise suspects when she comes across it during the search of a lost boy who's hiding in the forest close to her childhood home.


Unlike some of Sara Blædel's earlier books, this one took off right away and threw the reader right into the action from the word 'Go'. I had a hard time putting it down, and finished it much faster than I had expected.

Just as I had assumed, a lot of the loose threads from the previous book were picked up and neatly tied together in this one, and I think she did a terrific job of mixing Louise's past with her present in order to get everything sorted out.

As always the book ended sooner than I would have liked - i.e. with the arrest rather than the outcome of the arrest. I always want to see people brought to justice for what they have done, so I hope Sara Blædel will at least refer to that in her next book.