New York Times and internationally bestselling author Jussi
Adler-Olsen delivers an exhilarating mystery in the Department Q series,
featuring Detective Carl Mørck and his enigmatic assistants, Assad and
Rose.
In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of
police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call
from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is
dismissive when he realizes that a new case is being foisted on him, but
a few hours later, he receives some shocking news that leaves his
headstrong assistant Rose more furious than usual. Carl has no choice
but to lead Department Q into the tragic cold case of a vivacious
seventeen-year-old girl who vanished from school, only to be found dead
hanging high up in a tree. The investigation will take them from the
remote island of Bornholm to a strange sun-worshipping cult, where Carl,
Assad, Rose, and newcomer Gordon attempt to stop a string of new murders
and a skilled manipulator who refuses to let anything--or anyone--get in
the way.