When Morck finally returns to work, friction with his colleagues leads his boss to transfer him to head a new unit, Department Q, tasked with resolving "cases deserving special scrutiny" from across the country. Morck is shot in the head, but one of his brother officers is killed, and the other left paralyzed and suicidal.
In 2007, Copenhagen homicide detective Carl Morck narrowly cheats death when he and two colleagues are ambushed while checking out a crime scene. debut with the superlative first in his Department Q series. The Keeper of Lost Causes was originally published in the UK as Mercy, and is now a major Danish language movie.Adler-Olsen, Denmark's leading crime writer, makes his U.S. He is the internationally bestselling author of the Department Q series (Disgrace, Redemption, Guilt and Buried) featuring Carl Morck. 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 Morck 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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