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- ISBN 9781529446968
- Dimensions: 156 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 08 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Quercus Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - 30 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
Former Head of Department Q Carl Mørck has retired. That was the plan, at least. So when he comes across a disturbing audio recording, he turns it over to his former colleagues, who are struggling to keep the old Department up and running on their own. That is, until a new transfer unexpectedly arrives - Helena Henry, a Frenchwoman who throws herself into the investigation with gusto . . . but who may also have secrets of her own.
As the team realizes that the audio recording might shed new light on a seemingly open-and-shut murder-suicide case from years earlier, suddenly everything they thought they knew about the case is called into question.
And meanwhile, a spurt of seemingly random violence - an explosion off the coast of Jutland, a young woman shot dead in Copenhagen - sets the Department Q team investigating a possible connection to a different long-ago dark and sinister event, one that someone has never forgotten.
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Jussi Adler-Olsen is Denmark's #1 crime writer and a New York Times bestselling author. His books routinely top the bestseller lists in Europe and have sold more than twenty-seven million copies around the world. His many prestigious worldwide crime-writing awards include the Barry Award and the Glass Key Award, also won by Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbø, and Stieg Larsson.
Stine Bolther (Author)
Stine Bolther is a journalist, writer and television host and has worked for over eighteen years as a legal and criminal reporter. She is the internationally bestselling author of over fifteen crime thrillers, three of them cowritten with Line Holm.
Line Holm (Author)
Line Holm is an internationally bestselling thriller writer as well as a journalist employed at the national newspaper Berlingske Tidende. In 2010, she received Kristian Dahl's Memorial Scholarship for journalistic distinction.
