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.
Key facts about Mercy
Jussi Adler-Olsen wrote Mercy, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2011. The book has 503 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780141399966 to find the main one.
Mercy is book 1 of 11 in the Department Q series. The series has 11 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. 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
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