The Absent One: A Department Q Novel

Copenhagens Detective Carl Mrck is back and ready for action in the second Department Q novel from thenew it boy of Nordic Noir (The Times, London).

Carl Mrck has settled into Department Q and is ready to take on another cold case. This time, its the brutal double-murder of a brother and sister two decades earlier. One of the suspects confessed and is serving time, but its clear to Mrck that all is not what it seems. Kimmie, a homeless woman with secrets involving certain powerful individuals, could hold the keyif Mrck can track her down before they do...