Jussi Adler-Olson’s first Department Q novel, The Keeper of Lost Causes, seems to have capitalized on the craze over Stieg Larsson’s novels to become a best-seller here in the U.S., another Scandinavian crime novel featuring an emotionally scarred detective as its protagonist. I’ve read it all and I appreciate every bit of it. The Keeper of Lost Causes was originally published in the UK as Mercy, and is now a major Danish language movie.I haven’t had a chance to respond to most of the feedback on my post about moving from Arizona to Delaware, but I do want to thank everyone who wrote to offer praise, support, prayers, or other kind words. He is the internationally bestselling author of the Department Q series ( Disgrace, Redemption, Guilt and Buried ) featuring Carl Mørck. It is one she has asked herself a million times: Why is this happening? Praise for Jussi Adler-Olsen: 'Gripping storytelling' Guardian 'Engrossing' Sunday Express 'As impressive as it is unnerving' Independent Jussi Adler-Olsen has sold over 10 million books worldwide.
It says the prisoner's torture will only end when she answers one simple question. The voice in the dark is distorted, harsh and without mercy. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. Copenhagen detective Carl Mørck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. She will not give her captors the satisfaction. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. It is now a major movie, released in the UK in August 2014.
The Keeper of Lost Causes (originally published in the UK as Mercy ) is the nail-biting first book in the internationally bestselling Department Q series.
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