Afdeling Q (23 books in series)
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review 1: Weer een geweldig boek met Carl Mørck van de afdeling Q. Samen met zijn assistenten, Assad en de nieuwe hulp Rose. Carl vindt een zaak op zijn bureau, maar normaal doet hij cold cases en in deze zaak is iemand veroordeeld. Betekent dat dat de verkeerde persoon veroordeeld is of d...
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review 1: 'Isn't that a strange kettle of fish, Carl thought. It was straight out of one of Morten Korch's sentimental cinematic dramas. Soon they'd probably all turn out to be illegitimate children of some rural landowner.'p 226 Jussi Adler Olsen, 'The Absent One'Taken out of context this...
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review 1: Carl Morck is at it again. Arguably, this installment is even creepier than The Keeper of Lost Things. (Aldler-Olson isn’t afraid of doing the creep in his books.) This story is about the murder of a brother and sister who were beaten to death. This strange case went unsolved fo...
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review 1: Like the book, but the weirdness was almost too much. I felt this could have been an office I worked in a few times. The detecting was interesting, the sadness too much, but could be real. I guess things like this could happen with absent parents, and much too much or with too l...
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review 1: I'm not quite sure why I'm drawn to the grumpy, slightly misogynistic Danish detective Carl Mork series. Maybe it's that they're bleak, dark, disturbing, rough, and graphic--all things that, when done well, I enjoy. Maybe it's the plot twists or the descriptions of Denmark, maybe...
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review 1: I'm not sure why every Scandinavian mystery/crime author needs to be compared to Stieg Larsson. Well, I understand, but I think it does the other authors a disservice. I loved the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series... but most other authors do not write like he did and they can p...
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review 1: One of things really riveting books I find myself unable to put down. The mysteries are believable and well constructed. Believable and well-written characters, no glaring mistakes in the plot. There are a few annoyances, like the silly portrayal of the side-kick character, and t...
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review 1: This may be the best mystery book I have read all year. Certainly it is the first in a series that I want to read more of. The book has been out for awhile and has all ready been made in Denmark into a movie. The book has a strong plot with what some have called a predicable endi...
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review 1: I absolutely loved this book, though the content is abhorrent.The kidnapper/murderer is one of the worst fictional baddies I have ever read about, he is a serial killer who has no problem killing anyone- even though he has a certain fixed criteria of the children, he will kill an...
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review 1: This is really somewhere around 3.5 stars, because there were parts that I liked a lot, but then there were parts that were pretty meh. The main plot is good, and interesting, but I wish there had been more focus on the victims; now they felt very superficial characters even thou...
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review 1: I enjoy a book with plot twists and turns that I can not easily guess by Chapter 2. Jussi Adler-Olsen provides complex story-lines and great characters that grow as the series moves along. There is a deep darkness but what "cold case" murder is not inherently dark? I learned a b...
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review 1: Another case for Department Q, from the dead case files. Carl, Assad and Rose investigate a handful of missing persons 23 years ago, and wind up stumbling into paranoid political intrigue that extends back to the 1950's and is still playing out in contemporary Danish talk shows a...
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review 1: The Purity of Vengeance, the 4th book in the Dept. Q series, continues with another cold case in which Carl Morck and his assistants Assad and Rose are hoping to solve. As in the previous novels, very dark storylines with horrifying crimes are made bearable by the wonderful chara...
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review 1: I love how the main characters' background stories get slowly revealed over 4 books, and yet there is still so much more to learn. Rose and Assad, Carl's sidekick assistants, are very entertaining and endearing. And whenever Carl ventures upstairs from the basement into HQ, it se...
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review 1: This is the fifth book in Adler-Olsen's Department Q series. And it is fantastic. Carl Morck, the head of Department Q's Cold Case squad, is an irascible, often downright crabby character. His two oddball associates are Assad and Rose, both capable of handling their boss's sni...
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review 1: I didn't really think much of this book. We still have Carl the troubled, sarcastic, and occasionally lazy police inspector and his helpers the inscrutable Assad and the unpredictable but intuitive Rose. The latter two are still civilian police employees as far as I know, but act...
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review 1: Het feit dat ik er van september tot nu over gedaan heb om me door het boek te sleuren, spreekt voor zich. Na ongelooflijk genoten te hebben van de vorige boeken uit de Q serie, was dit een echte teleurstelling. Voor zeer lange tijd blijft het verhaal gewoon in cirkels draaien zo...
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review 1: i enjoy the quirky characters in Dept Q. Morck's anxiety increases this outing with changes in the police department leadership. Clues were given about the background of Assad, his Arab colleague. In addition to the murder/cold case/missing person mystery, Adler-Olsen creates a...
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review 1: I can't seem to find a series where the second book is as good as the first. I keep coming across awesome books only to be let down a little with how much the second book doesn't even come close to the first book. This was one of those books. The characters were great and the wri...
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review 1: My first Department Q mystery and I'll listen to others--since I've verified that this narrator doesn't read them. (He's not a bad narrator, but, from my point of view, he made a mistake in choosing to read the dialog with an accent, usually Danish. maybe. I couldn't always ident...
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review 1: I love Olsen's characters, and I think he does too. Their flaws and foibles of the denizens of Department Q seemed more interesting in this book than the actual case being solved. The murderer was just too perfect, too smart, too strong and too evil. You knew Carl would get hi...
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review 1: This was my second book on the plane to Hawaii - just finished it this morning after we have been here a couple days. Kind of an eerie plot but I liked it; my husband is currently reading the first one of Adler-Olsen's, which was even eerier!! (I think the plot of Purity of Venge...
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review 1: I don't know if this is because the book is written by a Dane and I am an American, but I found the characters, particularly the main character of police detective Carl Morck, not very believable or enjoyable. He seemed fairly misogynistic (and why read about that in the hero of ...