**New York Times bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen returns as
Detective Carl Mørck and his Department Q team delve into a cold case
that turns into more than they may be able to handle...
**
In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused
her--especially Curt Wad, a surgeon who was part of a movement to
sterilize wayward girls in the 1950s. More than twenty years later,
Detective Carl Mørck already has plenty on his mind when he is presented
with the case of a brothel owner, a woman named Rita, who went missing
in the eighties: New evidence has emerged in the case that sent Carl to
Department Q.
But when Carl's assistants, Assad and Rose, learn that numerous other
people disappeared around the same weekend as Rita, Carl takes notice.
Sifting through the evidence, they inch closer to Curt Wad, who is still
committed to his twisted beliefs, and whose treatment of Nete only hints
at his capacity for evil.