Q1: The Keeper of Lost Causes / Mercy
The Keeper of Lost Causes / Mercy, the first installment of Jussi Adler-Olsen’s international bestselling Department Q series, features the deeply flawed chief detective Carl Mørck, who used to be a good homicide detective – one of Copenhagen’s best. Then a bullet almost took his life. Two of his colleagues weren’t so lucky, and Carl, who didn’t draw his weapon, blames himself.
So a promotion is the last thing Carl expects.
But it all becomes clear when he sees his new office in the basement. Carl’s been selected to run Department Q, a new special investigation division that turns out to be a
Because she isn’t dead … yet.
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Weekendavisen
“Jussi Adler-Olsens depiction of life in a cage is simply breathtaking all the way to the spectacular ending – groundbreaking!
Berlingske Tidende
“Stephen King meets Anna Pihl”
***** – Jyllands-Posten
“Jussi Adler-Olsen has brought a welcoming new energy into a claustrophobic and cliché-plagued crime novel practice”
***** – Ekstra Bladet
“The novel is constantly entertaining. Gruesome depiction of a woman’s nightmare”.
JydskeVestkysten
“I can’t stop rejoicing. (…) He is as driving brutally evil in his actions as Dean Koontz and as good a storyteller of crime novels as Stieg Larsson. (…) It is exactly that, that is so lovely about reading a really good book. You get thrown out of everyday life, pulled into the action and exposed to things which you fortunately do not experience on a regular Wednesday.”
