Department Q Novel: The Scarred Woman (Hardcover)

from Hardboiled

I'm a big fan of Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q series but this one was hard for me to get through. I think part of the issue is the extent of the social welfare angle and how long it takes to start drawing the various plot elements together. I'm glad I finished the novel because in retrospect ...

from nbmars

This seventh installment of the adventures of Department Q, the cold case division in Copenhagen's police homicide department, is somewhat of a zany, noirish crime novel featuring a bunch of very bad women trying to kill one another. Their actions also seemed tied to an old, cold case, pitting De...

from jess_reads_books

THE SCARRED WOMAN is book seven in the Department Q series. This installment finds Department Q detective, Carl Morck, leading up one of his toughest cases yet. The department specializes in cold cases, but this time around it looks like this players in this case are still active and linked to ad...

from bucketofrhymes

Full disclosure: I received a free copy of the book from the publisher. As well, I've never read any other books in the eries. This is a compelling crime book, with plenty of relevance to the present day. There are a multiple characters, and multiple ongoing crimes. It took a bit for me to be ab...

from ethel55

May 2016 was a particularly vicious month for Carl Morck et al. Per usual in a Department Q story, a present day murder triggers their attention because of the similarity to a cold case ten years previous. It took me a while to really get into the book this time as I felt I really had to pay atte...