by Sara Blaedel
Today Sara lives north of Copenhagen with her family. She has always loved animals; she still enjoys horseback riding and shares her home with her cat and golden retriever. When she isn’t busy committing brutal murders on the page, she is an ambassador with Save the Children and serves on the jury of a documentary film competition.
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The Forgotten Girls
Wonderful Praise for Sara Blaedel and the Louise Rick Series
“Sara Blaedel is a force to be reckoned with.”
—Karin Slaughter
“Danish crime-writer superstar Sara Blaedel’s great skill is in weaving a heartbreaking social history into an edge-of-your-chair thriller while at the same time creating a detective who’s as emotionally rich and real as a close friend. You’ll whip through the novel in a day, and then keep thinking about it.”
—Oprah.com
“One can count on emotional engagement, spine-tingling suspense, and taut storytelling from Sara Blaedel. Her smart and sensitive character, investigator Louise Rick, will leave readers enthralled and entertained.”
—Sandra Brown
“Crackling with suspense, atmosphere, and drama, The Forgotten Girls is simply stellar crime fiction. I loved spending time with the tough, smart, and all-too-human heroine Louise Rick—and I can’t wait to see her again.”
—Lisa Unger
“A puzzling, intricate mystery whose solution packs a horrific double-punch…Once you start, you will have no choice but to finish it.”
—BookReporter.com
“Tautly suspenseful and sociologically fascinating, The Forgotten Girls demonstrates yet again that the finest contemporary suspense fiction emanates from Europe’s snowbound north.”
—BookPage
“Blaedel is one of the best I’ve come across.”
—Michael Connelly
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
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Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2016 by Sara Blaedel
Translated by Mark Kline; translation copyright © 2016 by Sara Blaedel
Cover design by Catherine Casalino
Cover photograph by Peter Zelei / Getty Images
Cover copyright © 2016 by Hachette Book Group
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