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Available on Sep 08, 2026 | 432 Pages
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.
When the team realizes that the audio recording might shed new light on a supposedly open-and-shut murder-suicide case from years earlier, suddenly everything they thought they knew is called into question. Meanwhile, a spurt of seemingly random violence—an explosion off the coast of Jutland, a young woman shot dead in Copenhagen—leads the Department Q team to investigate a possible connection to a different long-ago dark and sinister event, one that someone has never forgotten.
Author
Jussi Adler-Olsen
Jussi Adler-Olsen is Denmark’s #1 crime writer and a New York Times bestselling author. His books have sold more than twenty-seven million copies around the world and have recently been turned into a No 1 Netflix show directed by Scott Frank. Jussi Adler-Olsen’s many awards include the Barry Award and the Glass Key Award, also won by Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbø, and Stieg Larsson. For the long-awaited continuation of his series, Jussi Adler-Olsen has teamed up with criminal experts Stine Bolther and Line Holm.
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Stine Bolther
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.
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Line Tolstrup Holm
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.
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