Sara Blaedel Books in Order

In Odense, Liam Stark and Dea Torp are called to an abandoned building where a man lies dead, his body covered in small, deliberate cuts made over many weeks. When more victims with the same wounds appear and two teenage girls go missing, the detectives hunt a new serial killer before he can claim his next target.

Newly leading Denmark’s Mobile Task Unit, Louise Rick is called when an innkeeper is murdered and a hidden nursery is found upstairs. With a missing child, a shadowy cabin in the nearby woods, and ex-fiancé Eik on the case, she must untangle a web of exploitation and secrecy.

On leave in Thailand, Louise Rick gets a panicked call that her brother has attempted suicide after his wife, Trine, vanished from their small hometown. Returning to Denmark, Louise uncovers links between Trine’s disappearance and a schoolmate who went missing decades earlier, forcing her to confront buried secrets in her own past.

On a sunny summer morning in the village of Tommerup, a young mother disappears on the short walk between the sports center and her job at the local school. As more people vanish and cryptic notes appear, investigators Liam Stark and Dea Torp race to stop a calculating killer whose crimes are captured on disturbing video.

Journalist Camilla Lind rushes to the seaside town of Skagen after her father, editor of the local paper, is badly beaten and the newsroom set on fire. Taking over his work, she discovers that his reporting on a real-estate scam has made powerful enemies who will do anything to silence the story.

In the final Family Secrets novel, Ilka Jensen faces the violent fallout from her father’s past and from the double life of her friend Sister Eileen. As dangerous men close in on the funeral home and those she cares about, Ilka must decide whom to trust and how far she will go to protect them.

The terminally ill granddaughter of the wealthy Sachs-Smith family is kidnapped, and the abductors demand a single ransom: the return of a priceless stained-glass panel called the Angel of Death. Louise Rick, working as a hostage negotiator, must navigate greed, family rivalries, and art theft before the child’s time runs out.

When violent teenagers crash a school party, twelve-year-old Signe runs for help and is struck and killed by a car. As her grief-stricken mother fixates on revenge, Louise Rick investigates escalating attacks on the boys involved and tries to untangle who is really behind the payback.

In her first big case, rookie homicide detective Louise Rick investigates the strangling of a young nurse in a Copenhagen park. The same night, a journalist is beaten to death behind a hotel, and Louise’s best friend Camilla knew him, pulling both women into a dangerous tangle of murders and newsroom secrets.

A woman preparing dinner in an English village is shot through her kitchen window, then identified as Sofie Parker, a Dane who disappeared nearly two decades earlier. When Louise Rick learns that her partner Eik reported Sofie missing, she must solve the murder while questioning what he has kept from her.

Still unsure whether to keep the failing funeral home in Racine, Ilka Jensen is drawn into a new investigation when a local woman is murdered during a supposed burglary. The victim’s connection to Ilka’s father, along with blackmail notes and long-standing grudges, reveals how little she really knew about his American life.

Widowed school photographer Ilka Nichols Jensen lives a quiet life in Copenhagen until word arrives that her long-absent father has died in Wisconsin and left her his funeral home. Hoping only to settle the estate, she instead finds crushing debts, a hostile second family, and an old murder that refuses to stay buried.

Back from leave, Louise Rick is sent to search for a missing fifteen-year-old boy who vanished near the forest where she once lost her first love. The case draws her into a secretive group that practices ancient Norse rituals, forcing her to confront both cult violence and her own past.

A woman with a striking facial scar is found dead in a Danish forest, yet no one has reported her missing. Leading a new Missing Persons unit, Louise Rick releases the photo and uncovers a trail of abandoned twins, falsified death certificates, and long-hidden crimes tied to the woods.

A young woman is found on a Copenhagen street with her throat cut, and afterward Camilla Lind’s ten-year-old son discovers an abandoned baby. As Louise Rick investigates, the murder and the foundling connect to a human-trafficking ring that will kill to stay hidden.

When a teenage girl from a Jordanian immigrant family is pulled from a Danish fjord, rumors of an honor killing spread quickly. Louise Rick must look beyond easy answers as a second girl linked to the case turns up dead.

Detective Louise Rick investigates a brutal assault on a young woman who met her attacker through an online dating site. When similar cases surface, she must unmask a predator hiding behind fake profiles before he targets another victim.