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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.

Detective Carl Morck of Department Q, the cold cases division, has received a file concerning the brutal murder of a brother and sister twenty years earlier. A group of boarding school students were the suspects, until one of their numbers confessed and was convicted. So why is the file of a closed case on Carl's desk? Who believes the case is not solved?

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

The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of the Department Q series is back, with a terrifyingly relevant stand-alone novel about an America in chaos. THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR 27 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD "The president has gone way too far. . . . These are practically dictatorial methods we're talking about." When Democratic Senator Bruce Jansen is elected president of the United States, it is a personal victory for Dorothy "Dottie" Rogers. She has secured a job in the White House, has proved to her Republican father that she was right to support Jansen, and is proud to see the rise of an intelligent, inspiring leader who shares her ideals. But the triumph is short-lived: Jansen's pregnant wife is assassinated on election night, and the alleged mastermind behind the shooting is none other than Dottie's own father. When Jansen ascends to the White House, he is a changed man, determined to end gun violence by any means necessary. Rights are taken away as quickly as weapons. Checkpoints and roadblocks destroy infrastructure. The media is censored. Militias declare civil war on the government. The country is in chaos, and Dottie's finds herself fighting for the life of her father, who just may be innocent.

Germany, World War II. Two English pilots are shot down and crash land behind enemy lines. The area swarming with German troops, they have only minutes to crawl from the wreckage and make their escape. Boarding a train reserved for wounded SS men on the way home from the eastern front, they ditch their clothing and personal belongings and pose as German soldiers, hiding for days in soiled, bloody beds, feigning unconsciousness. But their act is too convincing and they find find themselves being transferred to Alphabet House, a mental hospital for those damaged by war. How will they escape? And for how long can you simulate insanity without going crazy for real? They are playing a dangerous game and it seems they might not be the only ones in Alphabet House hiding secrets.

Eine rabenschwarze Geschäftsidee Was hatte die Frau gerade zu ihrem Friseur gesagt? Sie würde es sich auch richtig was kosten lassen, wenn man ihren Alten beiseiteschaffen könnte?! Was für eine Geschäftsidee … Ein origineller, schwarzhumoriger Kurzkrimi von Jussi Adler-Olsen Wie freimütig diese Frauen doch reden! Sitzen beim Friseur und beratschlagen mit ihm oder ihrer besten Freundin, wie sie sich am besten ihres Ehemanns entledigen könnten. Lars Hansen, gerade selbst von seiner Frau verlassen und in akuten Geldnöten, muss nicht lange überlegen. Was für eine Geschäftsidee! Ja, gegen eine anständige Bezahlung kann er die Damen nachhaltig von ihren Gatten erlösen. Nur Blut darf dabei nicht fließen, auf keinen Fall. Und so scheffelt Hansen ein kleines Vermögen, der Bedarf scheint groß, seine Methode unangreifbar. Doch dann geschieht etwas, das die Konstruktion seines neuen Doppellebens maximal ins Wanken bringt. Für Leserinnen und Leser von skandinavischen Krimis und Fans von Krimiparodien wie Rita Falk. Neben der Carl-Mørck-Reihe sind bei dtv außerdem folgende Titel von Jussi Adler-Olsen erschienen: ›Das Alphabethaus‹ ›Das Washington-Dekret‹ ›Takeover‹