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Department Q is series of gripping thriller and crime novels created by Jussi Adler Olsen, an extremely popular crime writer out of Denmark. The series has enjoyed incredible success and the books and the characters have a strong following.
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- The Keeper of Lost Causes. 4.00 · 79847 Ratings · 6064 Reviews · published 2007 · 177 editions. Carl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen’s best hom…
- The Absent One. 3.88 · 39890 Ratings · 2667 Reviews · published 2008 · 141 editions. In "The Keeper of Lost Causes," Jussi Adler-Olsen …
- Flaskepost fra P. 4.04 · 36088 Ratings · 2118 Reviews · published 2009 · 144 editions. I Skotlands yderste ende, helt oppe på politistati…
- Journal 64. 4.06 · 24976 Ratings · 1645 Reviews · published 2010 · 138 editions. Indtil for blot 40 år siden blev utilpassede eller…
- Mercy
- Disgrace
- Redemption
- Guilt
- Buried
- The Hanging Girl
- The Scarred Woman
Released as Mercy in the UK, and as The Keeper of Lost Causes in the US, the first book in the series lays a strong foundation. An operation that went disastrously wrong – leaving one colleague shot dead and another, Hardy, permanently paralysed – hangs heavily over detective Carl Mørck both professionally and personally. He is quickly established ...
Released as Disgrace in the UK and as The Absent One in the US, the second book sees the addition of Rose Knudsen to the Department Q team. Mørck cracks open a new case, this time the murder of a brother and sister in the family home. The suspects here are a group of privately educated upper crust types, who turn out to be the worst examples of whi...
Released as Redemption in the UK and as A Conspiracy of Faith in the US, book three proves that there’s nothing more romantic than a message in a bottle, unless it’s a harrowing cry for help written in blood by a captive child. After the bottle is discovered by British sailors, it eventually finds its way to Deptartment Q. When Rose fails to show u...
Published as Guilt in the UK and as The Purity of Vengeance in the US, book four reminds us of the old adage about revenge being a dish best served cold. The wronged party here is Nete Hermansen, a woman permanently damaged in her youth back in the 1950s, who later carries out her own form of vigilante justice. Her target is an arrogant group of eu...
Released as Buried in the UK and as The Marco Effect in the US, the fifth Department Q book lands us in the underbelly of Copenhagen where a group of Romani youth wander the streets looking for a mark to pickpocket. Meanwhile, 5,000 miles away an aid worker in Africa texts a final coded message before being executed by a Scandinavian syndicate that...
As seen in Redemption, the theme of religious zeal returns with a new age cult taking centre stage. This time, Carl Mørck and his colleagues take on a case that has stymied a retired policeman for many years: that of a beautiful teenage girl called Alberte Goldschmid. She was struck by a vehicle, throwing her body up into a tree, where she died. Sh...
Released in September 2017 in both the US and UK, The Scarred Woman gives us a lot more insight into the character of Rose, who appeared one day to become Carl Mørck’s assistant and never left. You can read our full review here. The story opens with the corpse of an elderly lady found in circumstances remarkably similar to another case in the Depar...
Sep 3, 2017 · Written by Danish novelist Jussi Adler-Olsen, Department Q is a series of crime thriller novels. The series follows Carl Morck, one of the best homicide detectives in Copenhagen who has been ‘promoted’ to the cold case department, of which he is the head and sole employee.
Department Q is a series of crime thriller novels by Danish novelist Jussi Adler-Olsen. The series follows Carl Morck, one of the best homicide detectives in Copenhagen who has been promoted to the cold case department. The Department Q series originally began in Danish with Kvinden i buret in 2007. In 2011, it would be translated into English ...
Department Q is a series authored by Danish author, Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen. It is based on Carl Morck, a homicide detective in Copenhagen. His main duty is to work on cold cases for the department.
Department Q (Danish: Afdeling Q) is a series of ten Danish Nordic noir crime novels by author Jussi Adler-Olsen which have been adapted in an ongoing series of highly successful Danish films and a forthcoming English language TV adaptation for Netflix which changes the setting from Denmark to Scotland.
