The Keeper of Lost Causes
By Jussi Adler-Olsen; Read by Erik Davies
16 Hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 2011
Jussi Adler-Olsen is Denmark’s premier crime writer. His books routinely top the bestseller lists in northern Europe, and he’s won just about every Nordic crime-writing award, including the prestigious Glass Key Award-also won by Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, and Jo Nesbo. Now, Dutton is thrilled to introduce him to America.
The Keeper of Lost Causes, the first installment of Adler- Olsen’s Department Q series, features the deeply flawed chief detective Carl MØrck, who used to be a good homicide detective-one of Copenhagen’s best. Then a bullet almost took his life. Two of his colleagues weren’t so lucky, and Carl, who didn’t draw his weapon, blames himself.
So a promotion is the last thing Carl expects.
But it all becomes clear when he sees his new office in the basement. Carl’s been selected to run Department Q, a new special investigations division that turns out to be a department of one. With a stack of Copenhagen’s coldest cases to keep him company, Carl’s been put out to pasture. So he’s as surprised as anyone when a case actually captures his interest. A missing politician vanished without a trace five years earlier. The world assumes she’s dead. His colleagues snicker about the time he’s wasting. But Carl may have the last laugh, and redeem himself in the process.
Because she isn’t dead . . . yet.
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
WOW! The cover design for this is totally imitative of the Stieg Larsson books!
The book trailer makes it look like a Henrik Ibsen play done as a thriller.
I just finished listening to this audio book tonight, and it was a real “cliff hanger.”. I am thinking it will be the first in a series, (I hope) and I am already eager for the next one, which is how I found this site….hoping there was another by this author.