The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, Bk 1) (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
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Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Audio CD
Author:
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Audio CD
What do you do with a good, but damaged (physically and emotionally) cop whom no one wishes to work with? You take advantage of government funding and create a brand-new department for him alone (and keep the rest of the money in your own budget). Let the guy handle Copenhagen's (and maybe all of Denmark's) cold cases, allowing him a small basement office and an assistant whose immigrant background allows him to settle for menial work while his intelligence makes him a valued member of the team.
Jussi Alder-Olsen has created an engaging premise to a new series, in which Carl Merck and his Department Q (in other words, Carl and his assistant Assad) investigate the case of a rising political star who vanishes from a ferry between Denmark and Germany 5 years beforehand. Did she commit suicide? Was she murdered? Or, as the reader will quickly realize (especially if they read the dust jacket), perhaps she's not even dead yet
Alder-Olsen also manages to successfully manage jumping around various locations and even times without confusing the reader certainly a challenge that has stymied other writers.
I picked up this book simply because of its locale I'd never read a mystery set in Denmark. I plan to pick up the next one because the author impressed me, regardless of setting.
RATING: 5 stars.
Jussi Alder-Olsen has created an engaging premise to a new series, in which Carl Merck and his Department Q (in other words, Carl and his assistant Assad) investigate the case of a rising political star who vanishes from a ferry between Denmark and Germany 5 years beforehand. Did she commit suicide? Was she murdered? Or, as the reader will quickly realize (especially if they read the dust jacket), perhaps she's not even dead yet
Alder-Olsen also manages to successfully manage jumping around various locations and even times without confusing the reader certainly a challenge that has stymied other writers.
I picked up this book simply because of its locale I'd never read a mystery set in Denmark. I plan to pick up the next one because the author impressed me, regardless of setting.
RATING: 5 stars.
