Kald mig prinsesse - Sara Blædel

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Title: Kald mig Prinsesse
Author: Sara Blædel
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 9/10
# pages: 320
Date read: July 2007, May 2014, February 2021

"Call me Princess" The homocide department of Copenhagen police station receive news that a young woman has been raped, and detective Louise Rick is put on the case. The woman was raped by a man she met on a dating site, but the identity he stated was false. Looking through unsolved rape cases, Louise finds more following a similar pattern and when a young woman is shortly after found choked while raped by the same man, all resources are put into finding the serial rapist who operates in the shadows of the anonymity of the internet. But all leads turn up cold, and Louise Rick realizes that they need to turn to untraditional methods. So she creates a dating-profile herself.


I could not put this book down! It was fascinating and chilling, because it could so easily happen.

My only beef with the book was that it ended too soon. I doubt I spoil anybody by revealing that they catch the guy in the end ;) but the book ends right when they arrest him. I would have appreciated another 20 pages or so - perhaps as an epilogue - wrapping things up. There were too few reactions to the identity of the rapist.