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A young woman is found strangled in a park, and a male journalist has been killed in the backyard of the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. Detective Louise Rick is put on the case of the young girl but very soon becomes entangled in solving the other homicide, too, when it turns out her best friend, journalist Camilla Lind, knew the murdered man. Louise tries to keep her friend from getting too involved, but Camilla's never been one to miss out on an interesting story. And this time, Camilla may have gone too far.

Already widowed by the age of 40, Ilka Nichols Jensen, a school portrait photographer, leads a modest, regimented, and uneventful life in Copenhagen. Until unexpected news rocks her quiet existence: Her father - who walked out suddenly and inexplicably on the family more than three decades ago - has died. And he's left her something in his will: his funeral home. In Racine, Wisconsin. Clinging to this last shred of communication from the father she hasn't heard from since childhood, Ilka makes an uncharacteristically rash decision and jumps on a plane to Wisconsin.

Ilka Jensen's life is in chaos following the tumultuous events of Her Father's Secret. The funeral home she inherited after her estranged father's death is bankrupt. Her new business partner, Artie, lies unconscious in the hospital after a savage attack by mysterious assailants, and her father's second wife is in prison. Then, just as Ilka learns a shocking revelation about her father, two menacing strangers turn up at the funeral home—dangerous men who mean to draw her further into a world of secrets, betrayal, and murder.

After suddenly inheriting a funeral home from her father - from whom she hadn't heard in decades - Ilka Jensen has impulsively abandoned her quiet life in Denmark to visit the small town in rural Wisconsin where her father lived. There, she's devastated to discover her father's second family: a stepmother and two half sisters she never knew existed. Then a local woman is killed, seemingly the victim of a home invasion turned violent. But when Ilka learns that the woman knew her father, it becomes increasingly clear that she may not have been a completely random victim after all.

When the granddaughter of the wealthy Sachs-Smith family is kidnapped, Louise's skills as a trained negotiator are put to work. She is tasked with helping the desperate mother negotiate what soon turns into a life-or-death situation. The kidnappers will only exchange the deathly ill little girl for an infamous stained glass panel - known as the Angel of Death - that has been in the family for generations. But there's a problem.... The Angel, worth millions, was recently stolen from the family home.

The body of an unidentified woman has been discovered in a remote forest. A large, unique scar on one side of her face should make the identification easy, but nobody has reported her missing. Louise Rick, the new commander of the Missing Persons Department, waits four long days before pulling off a risky move: Releasing a photo of the victim to the media, jeopardizing the integrity of the investigation in hopes of finding anyone who knew her. The gamble pays off when a woman recognizes the victim as Lisemette, a child she cared for in the state mental institution many years ago.

Following an extended leave, Louise Rick returns to work at the Special Search Agency, an elite unit of the National Police Department. She's assigned a case involving a 15-year-old who vanished a week earlier. When Louise realizes that the missing teenager is the son of a butcher from Hvalsoe, she seizes the opportunity to combine the search for the teen with her personal investigation of her boyfriend's long-ago death...As she moves through the small town's cramped network of deadly connections, Louise unearths toxic truths left unspoken and dangerous secrets.

An online flirtation can have horrific consequences, as detective Louise Rick discovers when she is called to an idyllic Copenhagen neighborhood where a young woman has been left bound and gagged after a profoundly brutal rape attack. Susanne Hansson met her rapist on a popular dating website. But the man is hiding behind a labyrinth of false pseudonyms, and neither Susanne - nor the police - have been able to trace his true identity. With the Internet as his playground, the rapist will almost certainly strike again if Louise can't unmask him before it's too late.

Detective Louise Rick is on a beach in Thailand when the panicked call from her father comes through. Louise′s beloved brother, Mikkel, has attempted suicide. His wife, Trine, left him days earlier, walking out the door one day with no warning and leaving Mikkel devastated. Louise rushes home to Osted, the small, insular Danish town where she grew up and where Mikkel still lives. But the more Louise learns about Trine and her state of mind in the days before she left Mikkel, the more Louise begins to wonder whether Trine really meant to leave him.

Detective Louise Rick gets a call from her son, Jonas. A school party has ended in terrifying chaos after a group of violent teenagers forced their way into the building in search of alcohol and valuables. Arriving at the scene, Louise discovers that one of the girls, 12 year-old Signe, attempted to run for help, but was struck and killed by a car. Signe's grief-stricken mother finds that her will to live instantly evaporates with the crushing loss of her only child - and she'll do anything to make those who harmed her child pay.

A journey to a new life or a prison of despair and death? A shocking murder on Copenhagen's idyllic streets and an abandoned child reveal a perverse criminal underworld that crosses international borders. A young woman's body is found on the street with her throat slit, and the media is clamoring for the grisly details. Detective Louise Rick is investigating the gruesome murder when her friend Camilla Lind calls. Louise assumes it is because Camilla, a crime reporter, wants to be the first to hear of any juicy new developments.

It's clearly no ordinary drowning. When a young girl is pulled from the watery depths, a piece of concrete tied around her waist and two mysterious circular patches on the back of her neck, Detective Louise Rick is immediately called out to Holbaek Fjord. Her name was Samra, and when the police learn that she was a member of Holbaek's sizeable Muslim immigrant community, they immediately assume it was an honor killing. Yet her mother insists Samra had done nothing dishonorable.

Tras una licencia prolongada, Louise Rick regresa a su trabajo en la Agencia Especial de Búsqueda, una unidad de élite de la Policía Nacional. Le han asignado el caso de un chico de quince años que lleva una semana desaparecido. Cuando Louise se da cuenta de que el adolescente es hijo de un carnicero de Hvalsø, aprovecha la oportunidad para combinar la búsqueda del chico con una investigación personal sobre la muerte de su novio, muchos años atrás... Las investigaciones de Louise la llevan en un viaje a través del tiempo.

Era solo una vida, ¿pero era de ella? Los celos, las obsesiones y el honor familiar tienen consecuencias letales para una comunidad de inmigrantes en la periferia de la aparentemente idílica sociedad danesa. No ha sido un ahogamiento ordinario, y eso es evidente. La inspectora Louise Rick ha sido llamada al estrecho de Holbæk después de que apareciera muerta una joven inmigrante. Un pescador la ha encontrado hundida en las aguas, atada por la cintura a una pieza de hormigón, y sin más pistas, prácticamente, que dos misteriosas manchas circulares en el cuello.

Una noche, en un patio de la calle Skelbækgade del barrio de Vesterbro, aparece asesinada una mujer. En la escena del crimen hay sangre por todas partes. La han degollado. Mientras la oficial Louise Rick, junto con un grupo de detectives de la policía de Copenhague, está investigando el caso, recibe una llamada de su amiga Camilla Lind, periodista del diario Morgenavisen.

En mitad de un interrogatorio, la inspectora de policía Louise Rick recibe una llamada de Jonas, el niño que tiene en acogida, quien le pide que acuda a ayudarlo inmediatamente. Un grupo de jóvenes violentos ha irrumpido en la fiesta infantil en que se encuentra. Uno de los adultos está siendo atacado de manera brutal. Signe, una niña de doce años, sale corriendo en busca de ayuda, pero uno de los jóvenes sale a perseguirla. Cuando Louise finalmente llega al lugar, ve que algo terrible ha sucedido: Signe ha sido atropellada. Muere esa misma noche.

Uno a uno los atrae a la muerte... La detective de homicidios Louise Rick persigue a un terrorífico violador en serie quien contacta con las mujeres en un popular sitio web de citas online. Sara Blædel ha convertido su trepidante thriller en un número 1 en ventas interncional: sus libros ya han vendido más de 3 millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo. Un flirteo online puede tener consecuencias horribles, como descubre la detective Louise Rick cuando acude a un idílico barrio de Copenhague donde han abandonado a una joven, atada y amordazada, tras una brutal violación.

Louise Rick, la detective de homicidios novata, debuta en este emocionante best seller internacional: el número uno que lanzó la increíble carrera de la escritora Sara Blædel hasta alcanzar los tres millones de ventas. Una joven aparece estrangulada en un parque y un periodista ha sido asesinado en el patio trasero del Hotel Royal de Copenhague. La detective Louise Rick se encarga del caso de la joven, pero muy pronto se ve envuelta en la resolución del otro homicidio: su mejor amiga, la periodista Camilla Lind, conocía al hombre asesinado.

When innkeeper Dorthe Hyllested is found murdered, the police are surprised and puzzled to discover a concealed nursery in her upstairs apartment. As far as her friends and family knew, the recently widowed Dorthe was childless—so who lived in this secret toy-strewn room? And more importantly, where is the child now?

Tras una larga excedencia, Louise Rick vuelve al trabajo como jefa de la recién creada Unidad de Viajes. La policía de Fionia ha pedido ayuda tras el asesinato de una posadera en Tåsinge, y es aquí donde Louise conoce a su nuevo equipo por primera vez. El asesinato de la mujer no ha dado muchas pistas a la policía local, pero cuando Louise inicia un registro minucioso del primer piso del hostal donde residía la víctima, encuentran algo que no encaja con el caso de asesinato en el que están trabajando.