I turned to this from a Goodreads recommendation after reading The Girl in the Spider's Web, for Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author who writes intricate mysteries, just as Steig Larsson did. This was a worthy choice. It introduces Carl Mørck, a detective who has just survived an ambush in which one of his colleagues is killed and the other is paralyzed. Carl hesitated a moment and did not draw his weapon, so he is wracked with guilt; the last thing he expects is a promotion, but the promotion to Department Q is really to get rid of him. It is a department of one, save the Syrian immigrant who is assigned to clean, but there is much more to Assad than initially meets the eye. Carl is assigned very cold cases, which no one really expects him to solve, but then they didn't really know Carl Mørck.His first case is a female member of parliament who disappeared while on a cruise five years earlier. It is a fine procedural detective novel with twists and turns that will keep the reader guessing until its surprising conclusion.
Translated from Danish, 416 pages
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