A Department Q novel | SWAN Consortium

1) The absent one

Author

Adler-Olsen, Jussi

Volume

.2

Earliest Publication Date

2012

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Mørck is back. He's 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.

2) The Marco Effect: a Department Q novel

Author

Adler-Olsen, Jussi

Volume

.5

Earliest Publication Date

2014

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"The New York Times and internationally bestselling author returns with an astonishing and sinister case for Department Q All fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson wants is to become a Danish citizen and go to school like a normal teenager. But his uncle Zola rules his former gypsy clan with an iron fist. Revered as a god and feared as a devil, Zola forces the children of the clan to beg and steal for his personal gain. When Marco discovers a dead body-proving...

3) The hanging girl

Author

Adler-Olsen, Jussi

Volume

.6

Earliest Publication Date

2015

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"New York Times and internationally bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen returns with the sixth book in his exhilarating Department Q series, featuring Detective Carl Mørck and his enigmatic assistants, Assad and Rose. In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive when he realizes...

4) The keeper of lost causes

Author

Adler-Olsen, Jussi

Volume

1

Earliest Publication Date

2011

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Chief detective Carl Mørck, recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound, is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician.

5) A conspiracy of faith

Author

Adler-Olsen, Jussi

Volume

3

Earliest Publication Date

2013

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"Detective Carl Mørck holds in his hands a bottle that contains old and decayed message, written in blood. It is a cry for help from two young brothers, tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. Could it be real? Who are these boys, and why weren't they reported missing? Could they possibly still be alive? Carl's investigation will force him to cross paths with a woman stuck in a desperate marriage- her husband refuses to tell her where he goes,...