Excellent.

Adler-Olsen is a Danish crime fiction writer best known for his Department Q series.

The first book in the series is The Keeper of Lost Causes. (2013)

Carl Mørck used to be one of Denmark’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t draw his weapon—blames himself.

So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl’s got only a stack of cold cases for company.

His colleagues snicker, but Carl may have the last laugh, because one file keeps nagging at him: a liberal politician vanished five years earlier and is presumed dead. But she isn’t dead…yet.

I particularly enjoyed Mørck’s sidekick, Assad.

It was adapted in a 2013 Danish film.

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