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Former Head of Department Q Carl Mørck has retired. That was the plan, at least. So when he comes across a disturbing audio recording, he turns it over to his former colleagues, who are struggling to keep the old Department up and running on their own. That is, until a new transfer unexpectedly arrives - Helena Henry, a Frenchwoman who throws herself into the investigation with gusto . . . but who may also have secrets of her own.
As the team realizes that the audio recording might shed new light on a seemingly open-and-shut murder-suicide case from years earlier, suddenly everything they thought they knew about the case is called into question.
And meanwhile, a spurt of seemingly random violence - an explosion off the coast of Jutland, a young woman shot dead in Copenhagen - sets the Department Q team investigating a possible connection to a different long-ago dark and sinister event, one that someone has never forgotten.
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"There's enough atmosphere and surprise on offer to satisfy series fans" - Publishers Weekly
"Adler-Olsen's storycraft is brilliant...Die-hard Carl Mørck fans will applaud this investigation's familiarly intricate layers and the satisfying evolution of Assad's and Rose's characters" - Booklist
"As in the other books in this excellent series, the path to resolution is twisted, the theme is grim, and the violence is never sugar-coated...A good Nordic noir with strong psychological overtones" - Library Journal
"PRAISE FOR JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN'S DEPARTMENT Q SERIES: Quirky, tense and delightfully unpredictable" - Sunday Times
"Scandinavian crime novels don't get much darker than Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q police procedurals " - New York Times Book Review
"Gripping storytelling" - Guardian
"Jussi Adler-Olsen is a name to know. In a crowded genre, Adler-Olsen is an outlier" - GQ.com
"If you like the dark humor, wisecracking, and the layered betrayals of Raymond Chandler, then read Adler-Olsen's Department Q series" - Men's Journal
