The Keeper of Lost Causes

from lit_chick

Carl Mørck, Copenhagen Homicide Detective, has just returned to work after a shooting which left one colleague dead, another paralyzed, and him seriously injured. Unexpectedly, Mørck learns he has been "promoted" to head up the newly established Department Q, an investigative division which will ...

from RidgewayGirl

This is the first in another crime series by a Scandinavian author and featuring a detective who does not work well with others. A Danish detective was involved in an incident in which one officer died and another was left paralyzed. He's shunted into a basement room and promoted to head up "Depa...

from mausergem

This is a Scandinavian crime fiction. This is a police procedural.  Carl Morck was a detective with the Copenhagen police squad. In a shooting incidence Carl had lost a partner and his other partner was paralyzed. Carl after returning to his regular duties was being difficult and hence what made ...

from lauri804

It should be enough to say that I read it in one day. That I liked it as much as a Stieg Larsson book. That the lead character was a detective so loveable he reminded me of John Rebus in Ian Rankin's novels. That the last hundred or so pages could not go fast enough, just to see what was going to...

from lkernagh

I don't as a general rule read police procedural or gritty crime novels. I watch them on TV but usually I don't read them. My attention is prone to wander when a crime novel gets bogged down in details that don't interest me. Having finally gotten around to reading the Stieg Larsson Millennium Tr...