The Absent One: A Department Q Novel, Book Cover May Vary

Copenhagen’s Detective Carl Morck is back and ready for action in the second Department Q novel from the “new ‘it’ boy of Nordic Noir” (The Times, London). Carl Morck has settled into Department Q and is ready to take on another cold case. This time, it’s the brutal double-murder of a brother and sister two decades earlier. One of the suspects confessed and is serving time, but it’s clear to Morck that all is not what it seems. Kimmie, a homeless woman with secrets involving certain powerful individuals, could hold the key–if Morck can track her down before they do…