Kun ét liv - Sara Blædel

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Title: Kun ét liv (Louise Rick #3) Author: Sara Blædel Genre: Suspense Rating: 3.5/5 # pages: 350 Date read: July 2007, July 2014, February 2021

A young immigrant-girl is found murdered and Louise Rick joins the team working on the case. Shortly after the team have another murder case on their hands, but is it the same killer?

Samra is from Jordan and attends 9th grade in Holbaek. She has Danish friends, but otherwise lives according to the guidelines set by her family.

The police is immediately put on the case of finding Samra's killer, and they spend a lot of time pressuring her family as they fear it may be a case of 'honour killing' as Samra is suspected of having a Danish boyfriend, and often sneaked out of the house to meet her Danish friends.

Samra's father and brother are arrested, but it's only when Samra's mother starts talking that the case starts to move forward.


Fast-moving and fascinating story, and full of twists and turns where even on my third read-though I couldn't remember all of them. It's an interesting book, especially because of the insight into so-called "honour killings".

Camilla still annoys me though - I really don't get why she and Louise are friends. I seem to recall this improving in the later books though.