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A review by cooperca
The Forgotten Girls by Sara Blaedel
4.0
I don't know why authors from Scandinavia seem to write such disturbing stories in such a freakish good way! But oh I love them!
I picked this up on a whim as I needed something for the 5 hour flight I was about to get on. Wow, this book made the time just fly (no pun intended) and made me look at my fellow travelers in a new, sinister manner. Not that the story takes place on a plane, more about how we really don't know what lurks beneath. When the perpetuator is finally revealed, Louise Rick (technical manager of the Special Search Agency) looks at the perps house recalling all the times she had driven passed, unknowing what was really happening inside.
The guilty was just not the one committing the crime, but those around him/her that believed that there are some individuals who could easily be sacrificed. The coldness of the perp and those who covered up the crime was disturbing. When the story comes out, you just shake your head and go, 'holy crap'.
This is a slow burn of a book, one that's right at the edge of boiling and when it finally does, it's explosive.
Why the 4 stars? I had an issue with one of the passages towards the end of the book that took me out of the story. I don't know if it's because I've watched too many Law & Orders, but I doubted that the situation would have presented itself in the way it was written. Hey, it was my hangup, but it did bother me.
I will be checking out more of Ms. Blaedel's books as overall I really enjoyed Louise's journey as a cop in Denmark.
I picked this up on a whim as I needed something for the 5 hour flight I was about to get on. Wow, this book made the time just fly (no pun intended) and made me look at my fellow travelers in a new, sinister manner. Not that the story takes place on a plane, more about how we really don't know what lurks beneath. When the perpetuator is finally revealed, Louise Rick (technical manager of the Special Search Agency) looks at the perps house recalling all the times she had driven passed, unknowing what was really happening inside.
The guilty was just not the one committing the crime, but those around him/her that believed that there are some individuals who could easily be sacrificed. The coldness of the perp and those who covered up the crime was disturbing. When the story comes out, you just shake your head and go, 'holy crap'.
This is a slow burn of a book, one that's right at the edge of boiling and when it finally does, it's explosive.
Why the 4 stars? I had an issue with one of the passages towards the end of the book that took me out of the story. I don't know if it's because I've watched too many Law & Orders, but I doubted that the situation would have presented itself in the way it was written. Hey, it was my hangup, but it did bother me.
I will be checking out more of Ms. Blaedel's books as overall I really enjoyed Louise's journey as a cop in Denmark.