The Family Secrets Series: The Undertaker's Daughter (Series #1) (Hardcover)

from Twink

Sara Blaedel has been called Denmark's 'Queen of Crime'. I've enjoyed her Louise Rick mysteries. Blaedel herself has moved to the US, and her newest novel mirrors that move. In The Undertaker's Daughter, Dane Ilka Jensen inherits a funeral home from the father she hasn't seen in over thirty years...

from booklover915

Ilka Nichols Jensen is a forty-year-old Danish widow who has never come to terms with her past. Her father, Paul, was a compulsive gambler who left her and her mother, Karin, thirty-three years ago. For quite a while, Karin had to struggle to earn enough money to support herself and her daughter....

from dianaleez

Sara Blaedel's 'The Undertaker's Daughter,' is, unfortunately, the first novel in a series and not a stand-alone novel. While I'm an avid reader of series fiction, I prefer installments that come to a resolution and don't end with 'To Be Continued.' That said, Blaedel, according to the PR blurbs,...

from librarian1204

Ok, good beginning of a new series. This is an author I was not familiar with but I will definitely be looking for book 2. Ilke, comes from Denmark to Racine, Wisconsin to claim the funeral home that has been left to her in her father's will. This same father had left Ilke and her mother in Denma...

from susandennis

I read this book to the end in hopes that at some point I'd get an explanation for why it was written in the first place. The story was promising but it never turned into anything even remotely interesting. Ugh.