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After suddenly inheriting a funeral home from her father—who she hadn't heard from in decades—Ilka Jensen has impulsively abandoned her quiet life in Denmark to visit the small town in rural Wisconsin where her father lived. There, she's devastated to discover her father's second family: a stepmother and two half sisters she never knew existed. And who aren't the least bit welcoming, despite Ilka's efforts to reach out.
Then a local woman is killed, seemingly the unfortunate victim of a home invasion turned violent. But when Ilka learns that the woman knew her father, it becomes increasingly clear that she may not have been a completely random victim after all.
The more Ilka digs into her father's past, the more deeply entangled she becomes in a family drama that has spanned decades and claimed more than one life—and she may be the next victim...
"Sara Blaedel knows how to reel in her readers and keep them utterly transfixed." —Tess Gerritsen
"One of the best I've come across." —Michael Connelly
"Crime-writer superstar Sara Blaedel's great skill is in weaving a heartbreaking social history into an edge-of-your-chair thriller." —Oprah.com
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March 5, 2019 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781549170829
- File size: 218393 KB
- Duration: 07:34:59
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- English
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Reviews
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Molly Parker Myers returns to narrate the second book in the Ilke Jensen trilogy. Myers effectively portrays the Danish protagonist with a slight foreign accent to distinguish her from her Midwest family, friends, and enemies. However, the many personalities in this audiobook, who might seem interesting in a Nordic noir (like Blaedel's Louise Rick series), seem flat in the Wisconsin setting. Listeners new to the series may feel like they have jumped onto a moving train as they wonder what drove Ilke from her home in Copenhagen to take over her late and estranged father's funeral parlor in Racine. Expect a cliff-hanger ending with surprising revelations in anticipation of the final audiobook in the trilogy. E.Q. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine -
February 1, 2019
Two months ago, Ilka Jensen (introduced in The Daughter, 2018) left Denmark to sell the Racine, Wisconsin, funeral home that her estranged father inexplicably bequeathed to her. It turns out, however, that Jensen Funeral Home is buried in debt and prepaid service obligations while casket suppliers and crematoriums have blacklisted them. The only thing Ilka is getting out of the fiasco is the opportunity to get to know her father through the things he left behind; but when she finds a stack of blackmail letters, even that sours. No one seems to know who Maggie, who authored the letters, is, but the pieces come together when Ilka learns that the husband of their recent morgue pickup, gunshot victim Margaret Graham, had an affair with Ilka's stepmother. Could that secret have caused her death? And who is trailing Ilka around Racine as she probes her father's involvement in a racehorse-stable scandal? Not as dark as Blaedel's popular Louise Rick procedurals, this well-crafted dive into family secrets will appeal to fans of Lisa Scottoline.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)
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