![]() ![]() His colleagues snicker about the time he's wasting. A missing politician vanished without a trace five years earlier. ![]() So he's as surprised as anyone when a case actually captures his interest. With a stack of Copenhagen's coldest cases to keep him company, Carl's been put out to pasture. Carl's been selected to run Department Q, a new special investigations division that turns out to be a department of one. So a promotion is the last thing Carl expects.īut it all becomes clear when he sees his new office in the basement. Two of his colleagues weren't so lucky, and Carl, who didn't draw his weapon, blames himself. THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES, the first installment of Adler- Olsen's Department Q series, features the deeply flawed chief detective Carl MØrck, who used to be a good homicide detective-one of Copenhagen's best. ![]() His books routinely top the bestseller lists in northern Europe, and he's won just about every Nordic crime-writing award, including the prestigious Glass Key Award-also won by Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, and Jo Nesbo. Jussi Adler-Olsen is Denmark's premier crime writer. ![]()
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