The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)

by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Lisa Hartford (Translator)

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Get to know the detective in charge of Copenhagen's coldest cases in the first electrifying Department Q mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen.

Carl Mørck used to be one of Denmark’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t draw his weapon—blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl’s got only a stack of cold cases for company. His colleagues snicker, but Carl may have the last laugh, because one file keeps nagging at him: a liberal politician vanished five years earlier and is presumed dead. But she isn’t dead...yet.

Darkly humorous, propulsive, and atmospheric, The Keeper of Lost Causes introduces American readers to the mega-bestselling series fast becoming an international sensation.
  • ISBN10 0525952489
  • ISBN13 9780525952480
  • Publish Date 23 August 2011 (first published 1 August 2011)
  • Publish Status Remaindered
  • Out of Print 27 August 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Dutton Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 395
  • Language English