Jussi Adler-Olsen
Author
Series
Department Q volume 4
Language
English
Description
" International superstar Jussi Adler-Olsen, with more than fourteen million copies of his books sold worldwide, delivers his latest in the bestselling Department Q series ? a perplexing cold case with sinister modern-day consequences. In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her in her youth, including Curt Wad, a charismatic surgeon who was part of a movement to sterilize wayward girls in 1950s Denmark. More than twenty years later,...
Author
Series
Department Q volume 2
Language
English
Description
Assigned to run Department Q, Detective Carl Mørck is satisfied with picking up long-cold leads. So he's naturally intrigued when a closed double murder case lands on his desk. And when Mørck reopens the files, it becomes clear that all is not what it seems. The supposedly solved case leads him to Kimmie, a woman living on the streets, stealing to survive. Kimmie has secrets that influential individuals would kill to keep buried. (Bestseller).
Author
Series
Department Q volume 9
Language
English
Description
"On her sixtieth birthday, a woman takes her own life. When the case lands on Detective Carl Mørck's desk, he can't imagine what this has to do with Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division, since the cause of death seems apparent. However, his superior, Marcus Jacobsen, is convinced that this suicide is related to an unsolved case that has been plaguing him since 1988. At Marcus's behest, Carl and the Department Q gang - Rose, Assad, and Gordon...
Author
Language
English
Description
Sixteen years before Democratic Senator Bruce Jansen was elected president of the United States, a PR stunt brought together five very different people: fourteen-year-old Dorothy "Doggie" Rogers, small-town sheriff T. Perkins, single mother Rosalie Lee, well-known journalist John Bugatti, and the teenage son of one of Jansen's employees, Wesley Barefoot. In spite of their differences, the five remain bonded by their shared experience and devotion...
Author
Series
Department Q volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chief detective Carl Mørck, recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound, is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician
7) Disgrace
Author
Series
Department Q novel volume 2
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
1987. A brother and sister are brutally killed in a summer house in the north of Denmark. The evidence is not strong enough to prove the police theory that the murderer is to be found within a group of boarding school students. Twenty years later, Carl Mørck and his assistant Assad stumble over the file documenting the murders.
Author
Series
Department Q volume 6
Language
English
Description
"New York Times and internationally bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen returns with the sixth book in his exhilarating Department Q series, featuring Detective Carl Mørck and his enigmatic assistants, Assad and Rose. In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive when he realizes...
Author
Series
Department Q volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Get to know the detective in charge of Copenhagen's coldest cases in the first electrifying Department Q mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen.
Carl Mørck used to be one of Denmark’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t draw his weapon—blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects....
Carl Mørck used to be one of Denmark’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t draw his weapon—blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects....