(pb; 2015: sixth book in the Department Q series. Translated from the Danish by William Frost.)
From the inside flap
“In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call from an old colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive when he realizes that a new case is being foisted on him, but a few hours later, he receives some shocking news that leaves his headstrong assistant Rose more furious than usual.
“Carl has no choice but to
lead Department Q into the tragic cold case of a vivacious seventeen-year-old
girl who vanished from school, only to be found dead hanging high up in a tree.
The investigation will take them from Bornholm to a strange sun-worshipping
cult in Sweden, where Carl, Assad, Rose, and newcomer Gordon attempt to stop a
string of new murders and a skilled manipulator who refuses to let anything─or
anyone─get in the way.”
Review
This Department Q case, revolving around a sun-based cult and its possibly murderous leader (Atu), is a steady-build, character-centric police procedural that, like its predecessor Department Q novels, is a slick, entertaining, sometimes quirky, and twist-punctuated read. It’s more low-key than other books in the series but it has its own vibe, a work worth checking out. Followed by The Scarred Woman.
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