The Absent One

Jussi Adler-Olsen, whose bestselling English-language debut, The Keeper of Lost Causes, was praised as "a relentless
thrill ride" and "dark, atmospheric, and compelling,"returns with the second novel in his Department Q series.

In The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adler-Olsen introduced Detective Carl Mørck, a
deeply flawed, brilliant detective newly assigned to run Department Q, the home of
Copenhagen's coldest cases. The result wasn't what Mørck-or readers-expected, but
by the opening of Adler-Olsen's shocking, fast-paced follow-up, Mørck is satisfied with
the notion of picking up long-cold leads. So he's naturally intrigued when a closed case
lands on his desk: A brother and sister were brutally murdered two decades earlier,
and one of the suspects-part of a group of privileged boarding-school students-
confessed and was convicted.

But once Mørck reopens the files, it becomes clear that all is not what it seems.
Looking into the supposedly solved case leads him to Kimmie, a woman living on the
streets, stealing to survive. Kimmie has mastered evading the police, but now they
aren't the only ones looking for her. Because Kimmie has secrets that certain influential
individuals would kill to keep buried . . . as well as one of her own that could turn
everything on its head.

Every bit as pulse-pounding as the book that launched the series, The Absent
One delivers further proof that Jussi Adler-Olsen is one of the world's premier thriller
writers.

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