Aldrig mere fri - Sara Blædel

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Title: Aldrig mere fri (Never Again Free) Author: Sara Blædel Genre: Suspense Rating: 8/10 # pages: 374 Date read: July 2008, march 2021

In inner Copenhagen a woman is found murdered one night. The scene of the crime is very bloody, as her throat was cut in an uncommonly violent fashion.

Police officer Louise Rick has been put on the case together with some colleagues when she receives a phonecall from her friend Camilla Lind who's the crime reporter on Morgenavisen. She is deeply disturbed by an experience her 11-year-old son had the same morning when he on his way to school found an abandoned infant.

All clues in the murder case point towards the hooker environment of Copenhagen, but when another beastly murder is committed it's clear that new players are a field - players who ruthlessly abuse and punish others if it'd help their own lucrative business.


Slow to start, but it quickly picks up and becomes very interesting. It touches upon one of the most despicable crimes: human trafficking. It's something I feel very strongly against and therefore had a hard time stomaching the book, which also ended up being somewhat more violent than many of the earlier ones.

It ends rather abruptly and with an unexpected twist, but unlike some of her other books the abruptness doesn't mean any threads are left hanging... or rather they are, but not in an unsatisfying way, but rather because it couldn't be any different.