Jussi Adler Olsen

Redemption

Detective:  Carl Morck
Location:   Copenhagen
Time:         Current
Genre:       Scandi-Noir

This is the third in the Adler-Olsen Department Q series. The detective Carl Morck is in charge of some form of cold case department. He is assisted by an unlikely team of his cleaner Assad, a Syrian immigrant and a ditzy woman called Rose.

The story begins with a badly deteriorated message in a bottle from a kidnap victim which finds its way to Morck via Scotland 20 years after it was launched. This leads Morck eventually to discover similar crimes being committed. As the reader, one is already following this crime which involves the mistreated son of a religious clique minister preying on families in similar cliques feeling secure in the knowledge that the way he has set up his kidnap and blackmail will ensure his victims will never reveal what has happened.

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