Department Q Novel The Absent One, Book 2, (Paperback)

from lit_chick

"He skimmed the group's names a few times. It was enough to produce beads of sweat on his brow, because it wasn't just their fathers who'd earned enormous sums and become well-known figures. Years later some of their offspring had become famous, too. Born with a silver spoon in their mouths, they...

from Schatje

I thought the first of the Department Q series, "The Keeper of Lost Causes", was a keeper and so looked forward to this second installment about Detective Carl Morck and his assistant Assad who investigate cold cases in Copenhagen. This time a closed case mysteriously lands on Morck's desk. A bro...

from vancouverdeb

Disgrace, also known as The Absent One, is a great Danish based thriller featuring Carl Morck of Department Q, the cold case division of the police. Assad, his interesting assistant,along with Carl's talkative new secretary round out Department Q. A 20 year old murder case involving two badly bea...

from DeltaQueen50

The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen is the second book in the Department Q series and while I personally quite enjoyed the story, I can see why many had difficulties with it. At the heart of this story is man's cruelty to man, and the perpetrators in this story are particularly heartless and nast...

from jnwelch

The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen is a worthy follow-up to the debut Department Q novel, Keeper of Lost Causes. Copenhagen's Department Q handles cold cases and is headed up by ornery Deputy Detective Superintendent Carl Morck (they apparently like long job titles; at one point his sidekick Ass...