Publisher's Synopsis
Detective Louise Rick returns in Sara Blaedels #1 internationally bestselling series!A journey to a new life or a prison of despair and death? A shocking murder on Copenhagens idyllic streets and an abandoned child reveal a perverse criminal underworld that crosses international borders. A young womans body is found on the street with her throat slit, and the media is clamoring for the grisly details. Detective Louise Rick is investigating the gruesome murder when her friend Camilla Lind calls. Louise assumes it is because Camilla, a crime reporter, wants to be the first to hear of any juicy new developments. Instead, her distraught friend reveals that her ten year-old son found an abandoned baby on his way to school. As Louise digs deeper into the murder and the mysterious foundling, every clue uncovered points to organized human trafficking from Eastern Europe, run by ruthless gangsters who wont hesitate to kill anyone who gets in their way
