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Jussi Adler-Olsen’s New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series continues, introducing an intriguing new member to the Department Q team . . .
Synopsis
Former head of Department Q Carl Mørck has retired. That was the plan, at least. So when he comes across a disturbing audio recording, he turns it over to his former colleagues, who are struggling to keep the old department up and running on their own. That is until a new transfer unexpectedly arrives—Helena Henry, a Frenchwoman who throws herself into the investigation with gusto . . . but who may also have secrets of her own.
When the team realizes that the audio recording might shed new light on a supposedly open-and-shut murder-suicide case from years earlier, suddenly everything they thought they knew is called into question. Meanwhile, a spurt of seemingly random violence—an explosion off the coast of Jutland, a young woman shot dead in Copenhagen—leads the Department Q team to investigate a possible connection to a different long-ago dark and sinister event, one that someone has never forgotten.
Review
This is book nine of the series and it follows after the previous book with Carl now retired, and now an author having written one book about previous case, and now supposed to be working on another one however he has a bit of writer's block. So when he goes to check in with his old crew, and finds them trying to decipher a case, as well as ready to kill each other lol, he steps in a little to help. The problem is that Helena is not Carl and the rest of the team knows it, and are trying to adjust to her being there, much less to her trying to take charge. But everyone in the team has their secrets that they're hiding, and that's not helping them to work together. Meanwhile they have a case that has been reopened pursuant to a never heard message on an answering machine, coming to light. Now it begs the question on whether it really was a murder-suicide or if it was a double murder. But the killer still wants to remain free and it's going to do everything they can to stay that way. This is a roller coaster over read and you're going to be reading late into the night on this one!
About the Authors
Jussi Adler-Olsen is Denmark’s #1 crime writer and a New York Times bestselling author. His books have sold more than thirty million copies around the world and have recently been turned into a number-one Netflix show written and directed by Scott Frank. Jussi Adler-Olsen’s many awards include the Barry Award and the Glass Key Award, also won by Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbø, and Stieg Larsson. For the long-awaited continuation of his series, Jussi Adler-Olsen has teamed up with criminal experts Stine Bolther and Line Holm.
Stine Bolther is an internationally bestselling author, journalist, podcast, radio, and tv-host. She is recognized as a specialist on matters relating to the emergency services and has been a true crime reporter for more than twenty-five years. She has written fifteen books, ten true crime and five crime/thrillers. Bolther is also known as the host of several popular podcasts such as "Death in Denmark”.
Line Holm is an internationally bestselling thriller writer and a journalist with over twenty years of experience, especially as an investigative journalist. In 2010, she received Kristian Dahl’s Memorial Scholarship for journalistic distinction, and she has been nominated two times for Cavlingprisen, the most prestigious Danish journalism award. She has published a number of crime novels with Stine Bolther in addition to No Song for the Dead, plus three non-fiction books.
In 2025, the three authors won the “Martha Prisen” favorite author of the year award in Denmark.
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