By Jussi Adler-Olsen
aka Mercy
Jussi Adler-Olsen is Denmark's ultimate crime author. His books many times most sensible the bestseller lists in northern Europe, and he's gained with reference to each Nordic crime-writing award, together with the celebrated Glass Key Award-also received by way of Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, and Jo Nesbo. Now, Dutton is extremely joyful to introduce him to the US.
The Keeper of misplaced Causes, the 1st installment of Adler- Olsen's division Q sequence, beneficial properties the deeply improper leader detective Carl MØrck, who was a very good murder detective-one of Copenhagen's top. Then a bullet virtually took his lifestyles. of his colleagues weren't so fortunate, and Carl, who didn't draw his weapon, blames himself.
So a promoting is the very last thing Carl expects.
But all of it turns into transparent whilst he sees his new workplace within the basement. Carl's been chosen to run division Q, a brand new certain investigations department that seems to be a division of 1. With a stack of Copenhagen's coldest instances to maintain him corporation, Carl's been positioned out to pasture. So he's as stunned as someone while a case really captures his curiosity. A lacking baby-kisser vanished with no hint 5 years previous. the area assumes she's lifeless. His colleagues chortle concerning the time he's losing. yet Carl can have the final chuckle, and redeem himself within the method.
Because she isn't useless . . . but.
Read Online or Download The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, Book 1) PDF
Best thriller books
Tainted Blood (Reykjavík Murder Mysteries, Book 1)
While a lone septuagenarian is murdered in his residence within the Nordurmýri district of Reykjavík, detective inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is named in, besides accomplice Sigurdur Óli and feminine colleague Elínborg. everyone seems to be with regards to all people else in Iceland and check with each other via first identify, even officially.
Indiana Jackson is thirty-three years previous and works in San Francisco at an alternate drugs health center that pulls every kind of characters, a few of them skeptics, who fall for her candour and humility. Her teenage daughter, Amanda, likes noir literature and hopes to wait MIT, the place she's going to be with Bradley, an outdated buddy that she plans to marry, without or with his consent.
Edge of Danger (Sean Dillon, Book 9)
The action-packed new Sean Dillon novel. grasp mystery author Jack Higgins plunges his highly renowned hero into his 9th experience – racing opposed to time to avoid an assassination that will surprise the area. while Paul Rashid, chief of the Rashid Bedouin of Hazar within the Persian Gulf, uncovers a world conspiracy to deprive his family members of the oil wealth that's their birthright, he vows to realize a really public vengeance.
The First Rule (Joe Pike, Book 2)
The prepared legal gangs of the previous Soviet Union are certain via what they name the thieves' code. the 1st rule is that this: A thief needs to forsake his mom, father, brothers, and sisters. He should have no family-no spouse, no young ones. we're his relatives. If any of the foundations are damaged, it truly is punishable through dying.
- Typhoon
- SALT: A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller
- Dead Fall (Joe Hunter, Book 7.1)
- Sanctus (Sancti Trilogy, Book 1)
- The Quest
Extra info for The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, Book 1)
Example text
Ring back. ” The phone was trilling as he walked through the door. He hadn’t spoken to Maggie for eighteen months, since they’d bumped into one another in the Playhouse bar during the interval of a Willy Russell play, but it might have been yesterday as she came on to the line. Her voice was as warm as ever, although it faltered a little as she commiserated with him. ” “Yes,” she said. “Yes, of course. ” “I was hoping, right away. ” “You know the Traders’ Club in Old Hall Street? We have a firm’s membership there.
For all he knew, she might be at the Demi-Monde or Huskisson’s with some new bloke she’d just picked up. Of course, he should blame himself for succumbing to the temptation of her note like an addict craving for another fix. “Well, that’s enough from me,” said the compère and a slurred voice from the audience bellowed assent. “Now is the moment you’ve all been waiting for. ” He rolled off the last word with a Gallic flourish before rising to a new crescendo: “Yes, ladies and gentlemen. The enchanting.
A handwritten card on the door said that the Freak Shop would be closed this afternoon. The truanting schoolkids who were pressing their noses to the glass, admiring the naughty nighties, could goggle to their hearts’ content. Further down the road, he paused for a moment outside Mama Reilly’s. But there was no reason to go inside and it was time to return to Fenwick Court. Back at New Commodities House, Suzanne’s sheikh had presumably got his woman and the switchboard girl was now tackling a thousand-pager about sex in Hollywood.