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The Keeper of Lost Causes
(2011)(Mercy)
(The first book in the Department Q series)
A novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Barry Awards Best Novel
Jussi Adler-Olsen is Denmark's premier crime writer. His books routinely top the bestseller lists in northern Europe, and he's won just about every Nordic crime-writing award, including the prestigious Glass Key Award-also won by Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, and Jo Nesbo. Now, Dutton is thrilled to introduce him to America.
The Keeper of Lost Causes, the first installment of Adler- Olsen's Department Q series, features the deeply flawed chief detective Carl Morck, who used to be a good homicide detective-one of Copenhagen's best. Then a bullet almost took his life. Two of his colleagues weren't so lucky, and Carl, who didn't draw his weapon, blames himself.
So a promotion is the last thing Carl expects.
But it all becomes clear when he sees his new office in the basement. Carl's been selected to run Department Q, a new special investigations division that turns out to be a department of one. With a stack of Copenhagen's coldest cases to keep him company, Carl's been put out to pasture. So he's as surprised as anyone when a case actually captures his interest. A missing politician vanished without a trace five years earlier. The world assumes she's dead. His colleagues snicker about the time he's wasting. But Carl may have the last laugh, and redeem himself in the process.
Because she isn't dead . . . yet.
Genre: Mystery
The Keeper of Lost Causes, the first installment of Adler- Olsen's Department Q series, features the deeply flawed chief detective Carl Morck, who used to be a good homicide detective-one of Copenhagen's best. Then a bullet almost took his life. Two of his colleagues weren't so lucky, and Carl, who didn't draw his weapon, blames himself.
So a promotion is the last thing Carl expects.
But it all becomes clear when he sees his new office in the basement. Carl's been selected to run Department Q, a new special investigations division that turns out to be a department of one. With a stack of Copenhagen's coldest cases to keep him company, Carl's been put out to pasture. So he's as surprised as anyone when a case actually captures his interest. A missing politician vanished without a trace five years earlier. The world assumes she's dead. His colleagues snicker about the time he's wasting. But Carl may have the last laugh, and redeem himself in the process.
Because she isn't dead . . . yet.
Genre: Mystery
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December 2015 : UK Hardback
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June 2013 : UK Paperback

Title: Mercy (Department Q)
Author(s): Jussi Adler-Olsen
ISBN: 1-4059-1321-5 / 978-1-4059-1321-8 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin
Availability: Amazon UK
June 2013 : UK Paperback
August 2012 : UK Paperback
July 2012 : USA Paperback
May 2011 : UK Paperback
May 2011 : UK Paperback
Audio Editions
June 2012 : USA Audio edition

Title: Mercy: Department Q, Book 1
Author(s): Jussi Adler-Olsen
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Availability: Amazon
June 2012 : Australia Audio edition

Title: Mercy: Department Q, Book 1
Author(s): Jussi Adler-Olsen
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Availability: Amazon AU
June 2012 : UK Audio edition

Title: Mercy: Department Q, Book 1
Author(s): Jussi Adler-Olsen
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Availability: Amazon UK
August 2011 : USA Audio edition

Title: The Keeper of Lost Causes: Department Q, Book 1
Author(s): Jussi Adler-Olsen
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Availability: Amazon
August 2011 : Canada Audio edition

Title: The Keeper of Lost Causes: Department Q, Book 1
Author(s): Jussi Adler-Olsen
Publisher: Penguin Audio
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August 2011 : USA Audio CD
August 2011 : USA Audio CD

Title: Keeper of Lost Causes(lib)(CD)
Author(s): Jussi Adler-Olsen
ISBN: 0-307-94433-6 / 978-0-307-94433-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: Books on Tape
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August 2011 : USA, Canada Kindle edition
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