Department Q Novels: The Purity of Vengeance (Hardcover)

from pammykn

AUTHOR: Jussi Adler-Olsen TITLE: The Purity of Vengeance DATE READ: 11/27/15 RATING: 4.5/B+ GENRE/PUB DATE/PUBLISHER/# OF PGS Crime Fiction/2013/Dutton/500 pgs SERIES/STAND-ALONE: #4 in Dept Q series CHARACTERS AUTHOR: Detective Carl Morck TIME/PLACE Present, Denmark FIRST LINES Carl had heard ab...

from DeltaQueen50

The Purity of Vengeance by Jussi Adler-Olsen is an entry in the Department Q series featuring Detective Carl Morck and his small team as they investigate a cold case that with every passing day and every added clue becomes more convoluted and confusing. Twenty years ago a number of people disappe...

from jkdavies

This is the 4th Department Q book, and focussed on a set of linked disappearances from 1987, and the goings on of a sinister political party preaching eugenics. The police work was more to the fore than in books 2 and 3, and was more satisfying for that. We found out a few snippets more about gru...

from lit_chick

"Our work forestalling the birth of offspring unworthy of our nation, and preventing conception in women who might produce them, is the continuation of a long and honorable endeavor, and through this work all of us present have come to understand that indifference leads to nothing good." (Ch 23) ...

from Hanneri

Powerful story of Copenhagen's cold case unit as it discovers multiple missing persons from the late 1950's. Department Q, the cold case unit located in the basement of Copenhagen's PD HQ, is comprised of the most unique and entertaining characters I have read in any language. The boss, Carl Morc...