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

Purity of Vengeance is the 4th book in the series. (2018)

Jussi Adler-Olsen is Denmark’s #1 crime writer. The films based on his books are popular.

The lead detective, Carl Mørck, is just a jerk. BUT less a jerk in this book. Perhaps he’s getting better.

I do like his sidekick, Assad.

In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her in her youth, including Curt Wad, a charismatic surgeon who was part of a movement to sterilize wayward girls in 1950s Denmark.

More than twenty years later, Detective Carl Mørck already has plenty on his mind when he is presented with the (cold) case of a brothel owner, a woman named Rita, who went missing in the eighties …

But when Carl’s assistants, Assad and Rose, learn that numerous other people disappeared around the same weekend as Rita, Carl takes notice.

As they sift through the disappearances, they get closer and closer to Curt Wad …

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