(hb; 2023, 2024: tenth book in
the Department Q series. Translated from the Danish by Caroline Waight.)
From the inside flap
“On the day after Christmas, head of Department Q Detective Carl Mørck finds himself handcuffed in a police car headed for Copenhagen’s Vestre Prison. After fifteen 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. Buthe 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 of command
to try to unravel the case. With only one another 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.”
Review
Locked keeps
with its predecessor novels’ slick, entertaining police procedural thriller
execution, with well-written characters worth hissing at or rooting for (or somewhere
in between), making for a deft suspense and action book worth not only reading
but owning. Not only that, Mørck’s high-tension dilemma directly
deals with events that led to the
formation of Department Q, and a series entry that will decide Mørck’s immediate,
life-or-death fate—as well as the fate of this overall series. Great, wild-ride
of a mainstream police procedural.
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