the keeper of lost causes by jussi adler olsen

Kristian Høgh Jeppesen as Bjarne Thøgersen.Danica Curcic as Kirsten Marie Larsen ('Kimmie').The existence of department Q is threatened by the success of other departments. Dept Q's investigation leads away from the young man originally convicted, towards a group of students from a nearby boarding school who became pillars of the Danish establishment.

At first unwilling to get involved in the case, Mørck changes his mind after their father commits suicide after approaching him one night and leaving behind a box of material on the case he has been collecting for years. The story centers around the murder of twins in 1994, one of whom was also raped. It is the second film in the Department Q series following the 2013 film The Keeper of Lost Causes, and preceding the 2016 film A Conspiracy of Faith. The Keeper of Lost Causes was originally published in the UK as Mercy, and is now a major Danish language movie.The Absent One ( Danish: Fasandræberne), also known as Department Q: The Absent One, is a 2014 Danish crime mystery film directed by Mikkel Nørgaard and co-written by Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg, based on Jussi Adler-Olsen's novel of the same name. He is the internationally bestselling author of the Department Q series (Disgrace, Redemption, Guilt and Buried) featuring Carl Mørck. Jussi Adler-Olsen has sold over 10 million books worldwide.

'As impressive as it is unnerving' Independent It is one she has asked herself a million times: It says the prisoner's torture will only end when she answers one simple question. The voice in the dark is distorted, harsh and without mercy.

His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. She will die first.Ĭopenhagen detective Carl Mørck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. She will not give her captors the satisfaction. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. It is now a major movie, released in the UK in August 2014.Īt first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. The Keeper of Lost Causes (originally published in the UK as Mercy) is the nail-biting first book in the internationally bestselling Department Q series.

The keeper of lost causes by jussi adler olsen