By Jussi Adler-Olsen
New York Times bestseller Jussi Adler-Olsen returns with the second one booklet in his electrifying division Q series
“The new ‘it’ boy of Nordic Noir” (The Times, London) offers an electrifying persist with as much as his New York Times bestselling debut
In The Keeper of misplaced Causes, American audiences have been ultimately brought to Copenhagen’s Detective Carl Mørck and his writer, number one overseas bestselling writer Jussi Adler-Olsen. Now, Mørck is again. He’s settled into division Q and is able to tackle one other chilly case. This time, it’s the brutal double-murder of a brother and sister twenty years prior. one of many suspects confessed and is serving time, yet it’s transparent to Mørck that each one isn't really what it sort of feels. Kimmie, a homeless lady with secrets and techniques concerning sure robust contributors, may perhaps carry the key—if Mørck can song her down prior to they do.
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He lay down, placed his palms in the back of his neck, and gazed on the ceiling, imagining Mona Ibsen stretching her bare physique less than the quilt. If he didn’t pull himself jointly quickly, his goddam nuts could shrivel up. both Mona Ibsen or a number of speedy fishing journeys on the bodegas, in a different way he may to boot simply join the police corps in Afghanistan. larger to have one demanding ball in his cranium than limp ones in his drawers. An surprisingly dreadful go among gangsta rap and a complete city of collapsing corrugated steel homes thundered throughout the wall from Jesper’s room. should still he move in and whinge, or shut his ears, or what? He persisted mendacity the place he used to be, his pillow crammed opposed to his head. perhaps that was once why he got here to consider Hardy. Hardy, who couldn’t movement. Hardy, who couldn’t even scratch his brow whilst it itched. Hardy, who may do totally not anything else other than imagine. If Carl have been in his place, he would’ve misplaced his brain a while in the past. He checked out the image at the wall of Hardy, Anker, and himself, status with their palms round every one other’s shoulders. 3 rattling positive policemen, Carl concept. Why had Hardy suggestion in a different way whilst Carl final visited him? What had he intended whilst he acknowledged somebody were watching for them on the construction in Amager? He studied Anker’s face. although he’d been the smallest of the 3, he’d had the most powerful gaze. lifeless now for nearly two-thirds of a yr, and but Carl might nonetheless see those eyes so essentially. Did Hardy really imagine that both he or Anker can have had something to do with the folks who killed him? Carl shook his head. It used to be demanding to think. Then his eyes panned throughout a framed photograph of him and Vigga, again while she nonetheless fancied placing her hands in his bellybutton, then to the image of the farm in Brønderslev, and eventually the picture Vigga had taken of him the day he’d lower back donning his first, genuine parade uniform. He squinted his eyes. It used to be darkish within the nook the place the picture hung, yet nonetheless he may possibly inform that anything approximately it was once now not correctly. He enable the pillow drop and stood up simply as Jesper begun a brand new horror orgy of sound at the different facet of the wall. Then he slowly approached the picture. before everything the stains seemed to be shadows, but if he drew nearer he observed what they have been. clean blood like that used to be tough to mistake. purely now did he see the way it streamed down the wall in skinny streaks. How the hell had he now not noticeable it sooner than? And what the hell used to be it doing there? He shouted for Morten, then went and yanked Jesper from his stupor in entrance of the flat-screen television, and confirmed them the blood spots whereas they gave him seems of disgust and indignation, respectively. No, Morten had not anything to do with this revolting mess. And no, rattling it, Jesper had not anything to do with it, both. Nor did his female friend, if that was once what Carl was once considering. used to be he going gentle within the head? Carl glanced on the blood back and nodded. With the proper apparatus it's going to take at so much 3 mins to wreck into the home, locate an item Carl used to be guaranteed to see very often, rub on a bit animal blood, after which hightail it out.