by Sara Blaedel
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Blue Blood is fiction. Everything could have happened, some of it did, but most of it came from my imagination, so the characters in this book do not bear any likeness to real people. The world in which the story is set has a fair amount in common with the real world, but I used authorial freedom to allow the homicide division to work throughout Copenhagen, even though they normally don’t deal with cases in Frederiksberg. Morgen avisen and Nightwatch.dk are purely fictional.
As I wrote, it was crucial for me to familiarise myself with the real version of this world so I could create as realistic a portrayal as possible. Thus I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone who so graciously and helpfully welcomed me and took the time to answer my questions. My friend at the Forensic Pathology Institute and my friends at Unit A with the Copenhagen Police deserve special thanks. Without their help, I could not have created this story about Louise Rick.
Thanks as well to Lotte Thorsen, who read along and backed me up, and my clever editor, Lisbeth Møller-Madsen.
Any errors there may be are exclusively my own.
SARA BLAEDEL