The Absent One: A Department Q Novel

INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES DEPT. Q
Copenhagen’s Detective Carl Mørck is back and ready for action in the second Department Q novel from the “new ‘it’ boy of Nordic Noir” (The Times, London).
Carl Mørck has settled into Department Q and is ready to take on another cold case. This time, it’s the brutal double-murder of a brother and sister two decades earlier. One of the suspects confessed and is serving time, but it’s clear to Mørck that all is not what it seems. Kimmie, a homeless woman with secrets involving certain powerful individuals, could hold the key—if Mørck can track her down before they do...
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Another exciting read with our anti-hero Detective Carl Mørck being his brilliant, cynical self. Detective Mørck is brash, ill-tempered and determined. Once he takes on a case, he won't lose his death grip of it until he sees it through to a resolution. I enjoy getting to know the other characters in the life of this most human and flawed detective, too. I'm gonna keep on reading...
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