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Department Q · Book 4

Guilty

by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Published
1 January 2013
ISBN-13
9781405909785
Type
novel
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About this book

Guilty is the fourth book in Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q series, published in 2013. This edition is translated by Martin Aitken. In the reading order it follows Redemption and precedes Buried.

Key facts about Guilty

Guilty is a novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen. Readers have had it since 2013.

Our list holds 1 edition of Guilty. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781405909785 to find the main one.

Guilty is book 4 of 11 in the Department Q series. The series has 11 published books. However, the series starts with Mercy (2011). No Song for the Dead is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 8 September 2026.

That series sits on our nordic noir shelf. Meanwhile, No Song for the Dead is the latest published Jussi Adler-Olsen book on file, from 8 September 2026.

About Jussi Adler-Olsen

Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author and one of the most successful voices in the Scandinavian noir tradition, best known for the Department Q series, following Carl Mørck, a prickly, traumatized homicide detective exiled to head a newly created cold-case unit in the basement of Copenhagen police headquarters after a shooting leaves a colleague paralyzed and another dead. See every Jussi Adler-Olsen book in order.

Its place in Department Q

Guilty is book 4 in the Department Q series. It follows Redemption. It is followed by Buried. See the full Department Q reading order.

Department Q is Copenhagen Police's cold-case division: a basement office, a budget of essentially nothing, and a caseload of the unsolved and unwanted. It's run, more or less against his will, by Detective Carl Morck -- traumatised, sardonic and barely functional after a shooting that killed one colleague and paralysed another -- alongside his enigmatic assistant Assad, whose own past turns out to be far more dangerous than his cheerful, tea-brewing exterior suggests. Jussi Adler-Olsen structures each novel…

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