Book cover for The Absent One: A Department Q Novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen

The Absent One

A Department Q Novel

2012 Released
432 Pages
8-9 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
Hardback Unavailable
DuttonISBN 9781101590928

INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES DEPT. Q

Copenhagen’s Detective Carl Mørck is back and ready for action in the second Department Q novel from the
“new ‘it’ boy of Nordic Noir” (The Times, London).

Carl Mørck has settled into Department Q and is ready to take on another cold case. This time, it’s the brutal double-murder of a brother and sister two decades earlier. One of the suspects confessed and is serving time, but it’s clear to Mørck that all is not what it seems. Kimmie, a homeless woman with secrets involving certain powerful individuals, could hold the key—if Mørck can track her down before they do...

Jussi Adler-Olsen

Jussi Adler-Olsen is Denmark's #1 crime writer and a New York Times bestselling author. His books have sold more than thirty million copies around the world and have recently been turned into a number-one Netflix show written and directed by Scott Frank. Jussi Adler-Olsen's many awards include the Barry Award and the Glass Key Award, also won by Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbø, and Stieg Larsson. For the long-awaited continuation of his series, Jussi Adler-Olsen has teamed up with criminal experts Stine Bolther and Line Holm.

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