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Jussi Adler-Olsen
The hotly anticipated final instalment in Jussi Adler-Olsen's internationally bestselling Department Q series - pre-order now!
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The Keeper of Lost Causes features a deeply flawed chief detective who’s been selected to run Department Q, a new special investigations division that turns out to be a department…
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The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series comes to a thrilling conclusion when the team must turn inward to solve the cold case that has put…
Officer Carl Morck is given a bottle that contains a strange message written in human blood. It had been in storage at a precinct in Scotland for years. Carl and…
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In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Morck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the…
The New York Times and internationally bestselling Danish crime writer Adler-Olsen returns with the third thriller in his exhilarating Department Q series. Detective Carl Morck has received a bottle that…
Two boys, brothers, wake tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. Their kidnapper has gone, but soon he will return. Their bonds are inescapable. But there is a…
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The master of the Nordic thriller returns with the seventh instalment of the gripping Department Q series.
For the last 17 years, Christian Haberstaat has been trying to solve the murder of a young woman who was found hanging upside-down from a tree. He asks Carl Mrck…
Includes an excerpt from The Hanging Girl.
Previously published as a Dutton hardcover and Plume paperback [2014]–Title page verso.
In the penultimate thriller in the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, Copenhagen’s cold cases division must hunt for a nefarious serial killer who has slipped…
Translated originally published: London: Hesperus, 2014.
Adler-Olsen delivers an electrifying follow-up to his New York Times -bestselling debut, The Keeper of Lost Causes. Morck is back. He’s settled into Department Q and is ready to take…
Nete Rosen thought she’d put her traumatic youth behind her. Her caring foster parents and loving husband helped her start again. However, when a man from her past reappears one…
Copenhagen detective Carl Morck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. Everyone…
Kimmie’s home is on the streets of Copenhagen. To live, she must steal. She has learned to avoid the police and never to stay in one place for long. But…
Scandinavia’s new bestselling crime writing phenomenon comes to Britain
At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no…
The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of the Department Q series is back, with a terrifyingly relevant stand-alone novel about an America in chaos.
The master of the Nordic thriller returns with the eighth instalment of the gripping Department Q series.
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The much-anticipated penultimate thriller in the bestselling Department Q9 series
The newspaper refers to her only as Victim 2117–the two thousand one hundred and seventeenth refugee to die in the Mediterranean Sea. But to three people, the unnamed victim is…
In the exhilarating penultimate thriller of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, the team must hunt for a nefarious serial killer who has slipped under…
Over three years ago, a civil servant vanished after returning from a work trip to Africa. Missing, presumed dead, the man’s family still want answers. It is one of the…
THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR. Superstar author Jussi Adler-Olsen returns with the sixth book in his Department Q series, featuring much-loved Detective Carl Morck. For fans of Tim Weaver and…
Jussi Adler-Olsen, William Frost (trans.)
