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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2011
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Ilka Jensen

1 - The Undertaker's Daughter (Feb-2018)
2 - Her Father's Secret (Mar-2019)
3 - The Third Sister (Apr-2020)

Louise Rick

1 - The Midnight Witness (Sep-2018)
2 - Call Me Princess // The Silent Women (Aug-2011)
3 - Only One Life // The Drowned Girl (Jul-2012)
4 - Farewell to Freedom // The Night Women (Dec-2012)
5 - The Running Girl (Jan-2018)
6 - The Stolen Angel (Jan-2018)
7 - The Forgotten Girls (Feb-2015)
8 - The Killing Forest (Feb-2016)
9 - The Lost Woman (Feb-2017)

Book List in Order: 16 titles



  • An online flirtation can have horrific consequences, as Detective Inspector 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. Susan...



  • It was clearly no ordinary drowning. Inspector Louise Rick is immediately called out to Holbraek Fjord when a young immigrant girl is found in the watery depths, a piece of concrete tied around her waist and two mysterious circular patches on the bac...





  • A journey to a new life or a prison of despair and death? A shocking murder on Copenhagen's idyllic streets and a foundling baby reveal a perverse criminal underworld that spans across Europe. A young woman’s body is found on the street in Copen...



  • Four days later, Louise Rick still had no answers. The body of an unidentified woman was discovered in a local forest. A large, unique scar on one side of her face should have made the identification easy, but nobody has reported her missing. As t...



  • 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 fifteen-year-old who vanished a week earlier. When Louise realizes that the miss...



  • Following the incredible success of Sara Blaedel's #1 international bestsellers The Forgotten Girls and The Killing Forest, Louise Rick--head of the police department's elite Special Search Agency charged with missing persons cases--returns in Sara's...



  • Louise gets a call from her son, Jonas. It's every parent's worst nightmare: 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. Dashing to the scene, ...



  • Detective Louise Rick encounters her most troubling case yet as she goes up against an extremely wealthy -- but psychologically twisted -- sociopath targeting vulnerable young women. THE STOLEN ANGEL When the granddaughter of the wealthy Sachs-...






  • Already widowed by the age of forty, 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 inexplic...



  • Sara Blaedel returns with another thrilling novel in her series featuring homicide detective Louise Rick--a strong-willed police investigator perfect for readers of Lisa Gardner, Tami Hoag, Tess Gerritsen, or Jo Nesbo. ...



  • #1 internationally bestselling writer Sara Blaedel--whose books have sold over three million copies worldwide--presents a page-turning short story in which a journalist discovers that all is not as it appears in a seemingly idyllic tourist town. Jour...



  • A woman's murder is only the beginning as a daughter races to unravel the maze of secrets her father left behind--before she becomes the next victim--in the latest emotionally gripping novel from Sara Blaedel, #1 internationally bestselling author wi...



  • Family drama, deadly secrets, and deception come to a head in the explosive conclusion of #1 internationally bestselling author Sara Blaedel's Family Secrets trilogy. Ilka Jensen's life is in chaos following the tumultuous events of Her Fa...



  • USA TODAY "5 Books Not To Miss" • NY POST "Required Reading" "Sara Blaedel writes novels as twisty as spirals and electric with intelligence.  A HARMLESS LIE is a labyrinth of a mystery, dense and dangerous. Come get lost in it." -- A.J. F...



  • For fans of Jo NesbØ and Lars Kepler comes the newest crime novel from Denmark's bestselling suspense giants Sara Blædel and Mads Peder Nordbo.Everything is peaceful in Tommerup, Denmark, until a young mother disappears in the middle of an idyllic ...


Award-Winning Books by Sara Blaedel

The Forgotten Girls
2015 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Contemporary Mystery


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sara Blaedel has published 16 books.

Sara Blaedel does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dissolved, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Sara Blaedel, Call Me Princess // The Silent Women, was published in August 2011.

Yes. Sara Blaedel has 2 series.