Department Q · Book 1
Mercy
- Published
- 1 January 2011
- Pages
- 503
- ISBN-13
- 9780141399966
- Type
- novel
About this book
Mercy is the opening book in the Department Q series by Jussi Adler-Olsen, first published in 2011. The English translation is by Lisa Hartford. The book is 503 pages long. Disgrace comes next in the series. Department Q is an ongoing series, 11 books in so far.
Its place in Department Q
Mercy is book 1 in the Department Q series. It is followed by Disgrace. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780141399966