Win Only One Life (Louise Rick #3) Assembled By Sara Blaedel Shared As Electronic Format

Line: She could just make out the blue flashes between the densely grown tree trunks, but she couldn't see how many police vehicles were at the scene.


Inspector Louise Rick is called in to help local Danish police with a drowning that's anything but ordinary, Samra, a young immigrant girl, has been found in Holbraek Fjord, a large slab of

concrete tied around her waist and mysterious circular marks on the back of her neck.


Samra's life was short and sad, with a father who'd already been charged with assaulting her and her mother, There's no doubt in her mother's mind that her husband would be capable of killing Samra if he believed she had brought dishonor to the family.
But Sada insists that her daughter had done nothing dishonorable, even though the girl was supposedly being sent home to Jordan,

Samra's best friend believes her death to be an honor killing, Within days this young girl is also dead, and Samra's younger sister is missing, Louise Rick and her journalist friend, Camilla Lind, have their work cut out for them in solving this case, Is it yet another honor killing in the immigrant community, or is it something else entirely

This is the third book in the Rick/Lind mystery series and the second to be published in the United States.
Author Sara Blaedel is often referred to as the Queen of Danish Crime, but to be honest I could not warm up to this book or its characters.
Almost from the first page, I felt as though I'd missed my bus and kept chasing after it as it disappeared down the street.


Blaedel gives the reader a lot of facts about honor killings before the book even begins, It's a horrible problem that I was made aware of here in Phoenix inwhen four boys aged,,, andlured a developmentally disabledyearold girl into a shed on the pretense of getting some gum.
They then held her down and took turns raping her, What was the reaction of the father of the raped girl The man told the case worker and a police officer, "Take her.
I don't want her. " As horrible as that is to anyone who wasn't raised with that cultural behavior, at least the man told those two to take her away.
She'd brought shame to his family, He could've killed her.

So as far as the topic of honor killings go, this is an informative book to read, However, so little background on the two main characters was given and enough references made to things that happened in previous books that I constantly felt frustrated.
The plot also hinges on the reader believing in one certain outcome, and since I guessed early on that something else was going on, the false trail seemed clumsily done.


My enjoyment of this book might have been greater had I read the previous book in the series, but series books should be able to stand on their own without help from the ones published earlier.
The reader should want to read the older books in order to enhance their experience, not feel as though they have to read them in order to understand the characters and what's going on.
As much as I wanted to like this book, I'm going to have to quote the late, great W, C. Fields: "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia, "
posted on blog, Great book with interesting topic that is very popular among people, especially in Europe where we are not so much familiarised with Islamic culture and their amenities.
I'm usually very interested in other cultures, their differences and the way they act and behave, It fascinates me how much religion can affect people and the way of their living, Something that is normal to me, to other groups of people is not,
I feel very sorry for poor Samra, she had a tough life, trying to adapt to Danish culture and still live as it is expected by her religion.

In the end it wasn't an honor killing but it creeps me out knowing that this kind of behaviour is acceptable at some places in the world.
That is totally unacceptable!
Dicta was too likeable character, and she deserved better life, but she was too naive and impatient.
Ending with her mother was so shocking and unexpected!!

Louise Rick series are getting better and better and I can't wait to continue beucuse I'm still waiting for book, that will get me to five! Excellent book!! I have found a new author!!! Oh YAY!! Mystery set in Denmark with good characters and a great story line.
Can't wait to read more of hers, The female police officer is back in Sara Blædel's third volume titled "Only one life",

This time Louise Rick is willing to move to Holbæk temporarily to investigate a dead girl case, The residents of this small town, which is located far west of Copenhagen, were in shock after a girl was found floating in the nearby river.


What even worse is the fact that the girl had a middleeastern ancestry and was a Muslim, a combination of identities that often were frowned upon in Denmark.
Soon and sure enough, the town was buzzing with the talk of "honour killing" that is when a daughter of a family was killed by her own family members to protect the family's honour.


With the dead girl's father and brother acting suspiciously, the police investigation was naturally aimed at the closest relatives, The house was being bugged, the cars owned by the family were tracked until the victim's bestfriend was also suddenly found dead with the head cracked open.


Suddenly, everybody realised that whatever triggered the two murders was probably unrelated to culture, religion, whatsoever, There was something even more evil lurking in the motives of the two murders and they had to race with time before another dead girl was found on the street.


I love this book better than the previous one because this one portraits how paranoid the Danes can be toward anything "foreign" especially in a small town like Holbæk although the book is purely fictitious.
Blædel intelligently described what an honour killing actually was and what kind of pressure the immigrant teenagers were facing in their lives here in Denmark.
Although she was brave enough to prod on the delicate matter on racism, fanatism and all the things related to it, she managed to steer clear from it in the end by creating a whole new intelligent solution to the murders she wrote.
This book, hopefully, will make Danes see the immigrants / foreigners here in the country with fresh new pair of glasses, Jealousy, obsession, and family honor have fatal consequences for an immigrant community on the fringes of seemingly idyllic Copenhagen society

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 back of her neck.
 Her name was Samra, and Louise soon learns that her short life was a sad story, Her father had already been charged once with assaulting her and her mother, Sada, who makes it clear that her husband would indeed be capable of killing Samra if she brought dishonor to the family.
But she maintains that Samra hadnt done anything dishonorable, Then why was she supposed to be sent back to Jordan Samras best friend Dicte thinks it was an honor killing, A few days later Dicte is discovered, bludgeoned to death, and Samras younger sister has gone missing,  Navigating the complex web of family and community ties in Copenhagens tightly knit ethnic communities, Louise must find this remorseless predator, or predators, before it is too late.
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