Only One Life

Louise Rick has been called out to the coast where the body of a young girl has been found submerged in the water.  The body is wrapped in chicken wire and a concrete slab tied to her abdomen.

Louise has been brought in from Copenhagen because of her experience and partnered up with a local detective, Mik Rasmussen.  Towards the end of the day a young girl comes in to report that her friend is missing, wondering if the missing girl is her friend.

When the girl is identified, Louise and Mik are unable to get hold of her parents.  They are not home.  The following morning the father comes in.  The police wonder if her death was an honour killing as the family had emigrated from Jordan.  The police begin their investigation by focussing on the family.

Louise's friend, Camilla Lind has been assigned to investigate the story by her newspaper.  Her attempt at interviewing the mother of the victim brings angry recriminations from the father.  However, later she does get an interview and learns a lot about the faith and rules she has to live by.  Louise has no luck when she interviews the victim's friends.

Louise is shocked when one of the victim's good friends, Dicta, is found brutally murdered outside the hotel where she is staying.  Dicta had wanted to become a model, so Louise and Mik bring in her photographer for questioning.  However, Louise is convinced that the father and brother of the first victim are responsible for both murders.  Now the team just has to gather the evidence. 

Camilla disagrees, she thinks that they will be forced to release the two men and the police will look stupid because they arrested the two men based on racial profiling.  Camilla wants to publish an article showing that Danish families also committed family exclusion.

When the truth of the matter is discovered it is both sad and very tragic.  Author Sara Baeldel has provided the reader with a thrilling murder mystery.  I highly recommend it.