Department Q has been given a package that was sent to them from the
police in Scotland. It contains the shards of what once was a bottle
and a note asking for help. The note was written in blood and was in
Danish. Head of Department Q, Carl Morck, gives it to Rose to work on.
Meantime he is working on an old arson case that might be related to
some more recent ones.
Former forensic officer Tomas Laursen helps Carl and Assad with the
note. He is able to determine that the note was written in difficult
circumstances, and that the paper it was written on likely wrapped fish
at one time. The team is able to make out a date on the note, and from
there they are able to research who might have written the note. As a
result, Carl travels to Sweden to further his investigation.
With what he learns in Sweden, Carl is able to make the case an active
investigation gaining support from his superior. It is Rose's sister
who helps to put things together on the two cases that Department Q is
working on.
Later, when Carl and Assad go to speak to two women who have been
involved in a car accident, and who may know something about the case
that they are working on, they find out that one of the women has passed
away and a nurse who had been looking in on them had been attacked.
Could this have something to do with their case?
Author Jussi Adler-Olsen writes in such a manner that builds up tension
for the reader, and then suddenly pulls the ladder out from under the
reader, only to build it up again. This is a book that you will not
want to put down until you have finished it. An excellent thriller.
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