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The thrilling final instalment in the Department Q series - pre-order now! On the day after Christmas, head of Department Q Detective Carl Morck finds himself handcuffed in a police car headed for Copenhagen''s Vestre prison. After 15 years, a violent case from his past has caught up with him. Charges of drug trafficking and murder threaten to destroy his life and career. But he is being framed. Someone has a million dollar bounty on his head to make sure he doesn''t talk, putting him in grave danger among the prison''s incarcerated criminals and corrupt officers. The question that remains is, why? Carl''s colleagues at the Copenhagen Police Department instantly turn their backs on him, leaving the ever-loyal Department Q team as his only hope. In search of answers, Rose, Assad, and Gordon must disobey direct orders from way up the chain to try to unravel case. With only each other to trust and Carl''s battle against the unknown mastermind''s henchmen worsening by the day, they must work faster than ever before if they are to clear his name - and save his life. [payot.ch]

A snobbish Danish literary author is challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days, travelling to a small village in Iceland for inspiration, and then a body appears … an atmospheric, darkly funny, twisty debut thriller, first in an addictive new series.

De tijd tikt voor Alma. Elke dag, alsof het haar laatste is, windt ze de staande klok op die haar door decennia van verdriet en vreugde heeft begeleid. Sommige van haar herinneringen probeert ze te verdringen, maar met name de gedachten aan haar overleden man, de horlogemaker Otto, verstoren haar gemoedsrust. Wat is er met Otto gebeurd? Alma kent de waarheid, maar waarom kan ze zich die dan niet herinneren? Er is nog veel waarmee Alma in het reine zal moeten komen voordat haar leven ten einde is.Een onverwachte ontmoeting met een kleine jongen en de vriendschap die daaruit voortspruit geven haar leven een nieuwe impuls. Intussen maken de duisternis en kou van de winter plaats voor het licht en de warmte van de lente. Het is duidelijk dat Alma’s leven nog niet voorbij kan zijn.Uurwerk is een liefdevol portret van iemand die probeert een lang leven een vreedzaam einde te geven. Maar als leven, dood en tijd een loopje met je nemen, wordt dat er niet eenvoudiger op.

The master of the Nordic thriller returns with the eighth instalment of the gripping Department Q series.

Then he walked the long way into town to report his only child missing. This way her Dad had said, she'd never have to go to school; this way, she'd never have to leave her parents.

Internationally bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen returns with the sixth book in his exhilarating Department Q series, featuring much-loved series character Detective Carl Mørck.

Over three years ago, a civil servant vanished after returning from a work trip to Africa. Missing, presumed dead, the man's family still want answers. It is one of the many unsolved crimes left for Department Q, Denmark's cold case unit headed up by Detective Carl Morck. But what Carl doesn't know is that the key to the investigation is in Copenhagen. Fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson is tough, smart and suspicious of police. Sleeping rough and hiding in the shadows is his way of life. But what is he running from - and what does he know that's worth killing for?

Nete Rosen thought she'd put her traumatic youth behind her. Her caring foster parents and loving husband helped her start again. However, when a man from her past reappears one night, Nete's new life could be shattered. But she won't be drawn back into that nightmare - she won't be a victim again...

In The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adler-Olsen introduced Detective Carl Mørck, a deeply flawed, brilliant detective newly assigned to run Department Q, the home of Copenhagen’s coldest cases. The result wasn’t what Mørck—or readers—expected, but by the opening of Adler-Olsen’s shocking, fast-paced follow-up, Mørck is satisfied with the notion of picking up long-cold leads. So he’s naturally intrigued when a closed case lands on his desk: A brother and sister were brutally murdered two decades earlier, and one of the suspects—part of a group of privileged boarding-school students—confessed and was convicted. But once Mørck reopens the files, it becomes clear that all is not what it seems. Looking into the supposedly solved case leads him to Kimmie, a woman living on the streets, stealing to survive. Kimmie has mastered evading the police, but now they aren’t the only ones looking for her. Because Kimmie has secrets that certain influential individuals would kill to keep buried . . . as well as one of her own that could turn everything on its head.

Jussi Adler-Olsen's internationally bestselling Q series returns with a gripping installment for fans of Scandinavian crime thrillers. Two brothers wake tied in a boathouse by the sea, abandoned by their kidnapper but aware he will soon return. With only a bottle and tar, they craft a desperate plea for help using blood for ink. Meanwhile, a woman is trapped in a tumultuous marriage, enduring her husband's secrets and threats. Determined to uncover the truth, she is prepared to confront the consequences. In Copenhagen's cold cases division, Carl Morck discovers a bottle containing a decayed message written in blood—a cry for help from the boys. He questions its authenticity, their identities, and whether they are still alive. In 2013, the creators of the Stieg Larsson films and The Killing will adapt Adler-Olsen's Department Q novels, including this one, for the big screen. Praise for Adler-Olsen highlights his status as a rising star in Nordic Noir. His exploration of abnormal psychology continues to captivate readers. Born in Copenhagen, he studied various subjects and worked as a magazine editor before embarking on his writing career, with all three Department Q thrillers achieving bestseller status in Denmark.

At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows not to go mad. She will not give her captors the satisfaction. She will die first. Copenhagen detective Carl Mørck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. Everyone says she's dead. Everyone says it's a waste of time. He thinks they're right. The voice in the dark is distorted, harsh and without mercy. It says the prisoner's torture will only end when she answers one simple question. It is one she has asked herself a million times: WHY is this happening? A dark and mysterious story, Mercy establishes Jussi Adler-Olsen as the master of the Nordic thriller.

Een jonge academicus is op de screensaver van zijn computer getuige van een moord op een collegastudent.

In this thriller, Iranian mullahs have issued a fatwa for an internationally acclaimed writer by offering a four million dollar reward to the person who carries out her death sentence. At the same time the writer--her life in jeopardy--has been invited to Copenhagen by a Danish daily newspaper to speak at an event, and the Danish Secret Service is put in charge of protecting her. A politician in parliament strikes a deal with dire consequences while somewhere in the former Yugoslavia a young man, the Serbian Dane, signs up for murder.