Guilt (Department Q 4)

Author/Guide: Jussi Adler-Olsen

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1987 – 2010 -There is another case for Dept Q – somewhere deep in the basement of the Copenhagen police department which looks into cold cases.

ISBN: 978-1405909785
Translator: Martin Aitken
Genre: Crime

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1987 – Nete Rosen thought she’d put her traumatic youth behind her. and with the help of her caring foster parents and loving husband she’s done just that. But wen someone appears from her past, things could well start to crumble. Nete refuses to be dragged back into that nightmare again.

2010 – Detective Carl Mørck from Copenhagen’s cold case division is looking into the disappearance of Rita Nielsen, an escort agency owner. But soon the investigation shows that this may not be a one off case and that it could in fact go back to years earlier.

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Department Q is that cold distant and darkest corner deep down in the basement of the police station. Not the kind of place a policeman would want to be – the cases are colder and even more dead that the corpses themselves.

Carl Mørck is the grumpy detective with a troublesome past who tries to solve the unsolvable and below the streets of Copenhagen, secrets come to light even if there is not a great deal of it in the basement..

But this is where the case of the kidnappings come to light. Where one cold case seems to set off a chain of events – in this case the disappearance of several people all on the same day which at first seems to be an unnatural coincidence but one which soon unravels and shows its disparate threads…

With cases in the past and in the present merging, Copenhagen takes on an eerie an chilling tone –

“The owner of an escort agency had been attacked with sulphuric aid in her flat on Enghavevej, leaving staff at the Rigshospital’s burns unit with a job on his hands.”

This is a cold case that permeates every street, every person in the department and outside. Department Q has more secrets to investigate. Copenhagen just got a whole lot more complicated.