The book starts out describing a woman being held in a prison and the reader grasps something of what is to come. Then the author, Jussi Adler-Olsen introduces a detective - Carl Morck who has been involved in a shooting incident where one of his partners was killed and another paralysed. Morck, himself was wounded in the temple and likely saved from death when one of his partners crashed on top of him. He is now returned to duty, but not back to the homicide squad. He is given Department Q, which is to look into cold cases. He is not given any help other than a janitor cum servant, Hafez el-Assad.
The next chapter takes us back to 2002 and we meet Merete Lynnegard, an up and coming member of Parliament. She has a younger brother who she is taking care of. Uffe and their family were involved in a car accident several years earlier in which their parents were killed and Uffe suffered a serious brain injury.
Adler-Olsen then begins to tie the two stories together. Merete has gone missing having disappeared from a ferry while taking her brother on a holiday to Berlin in 2002. This case is one of the cases that appears amongst the files of Department Q. Carl and Hafez begin to research it together, slowly finding clues that had been missed in the earlier investigations.
If you enjoyed "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" series, then you undoubtedly will enjoy "The Keeper of Lost Causes". This was a book I was unable to put down!
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