Denmark's bestselling crime writer hits British shores, introducing memorable cop duo, Detective Carl Morck and his Syrian assistant Assad. Morck used to be one of Copenhagen's finest detectives, but a bullet almost took his life, and two of his colleagues weren't so lucky. Now his erratic behaviour seems like it's going to cost him his job, but instead he's put in charge of 'Department Q,' a home for apparently hopeless cases.

Jussi Adler-Olsen was born in Copenhagen and studied medicine, sociology, politics and film. He worked as a magazine editor and publisher before starting to write fiction. So far he has written three Department Q thrillers, which all hit the Danish bestseller lists on publication and stayed there ever since.

An unusually fine and extremely fascinating thriller which will keep you breathless till the very last page politiken.dk Jussi Adler-Olsen tells his stories as wickedly as Dean Koontz and has his detectives work as hard as Stieg Larsson Jydske Vestkysten