Pigen under træet - Sara Blædel

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Title: Pigen under træet (Louise Rick #10)
Author: Sara Blædel
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 320
Date read: November 2021

On Bornholm, the mummified body of a schoolgirl is found. Susan disappeared without a trace during a school trip in 1995. The body has been hidden in a rock crevice in Ekkodalen under a swarming cover of insects.

Camilla Lind is back at Morgenavisen and insists on unraveling what really happened when Susan disappeared. When Camilla seeks out Susan's old classmate, Pia, to find out more, she finds a family overwhelmed by grief because Pia committed suicide that same morning.

Louise Rick is on leave from her job and has been called home prematurely from her travels after her brother tried to commit suicide. He is devastated because his wife, Trine, has left him and their two young children again. Louise tries to help her brother find Trine, whom nobody has heard from since she left home.

In her search among Trine's things, Louise finds an old class picture, and it dawns on her that Trine was in the same class as Susan and Pia and was with them on the school trip when Susan disappeared…


A quick read, like all the other Louise Rick books, but not my favourite. It seemed too... contrived, I guess? for want of better word. I'd guessed part of the twist at a very early stage (which didn't bother me - that's what happens when you read so many books in the same series so closely together ;-) ), but the rest of the twist just didn't seem believable.

I still enjoyed reading it though, and I liked that Louise didn't go off and play vigilante, just because she was on leave, but still worked together with the local police department.