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Department Q · Book 3

Redemption

by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Published
1 January 2013
Pages
631
ISBN-13
9780141399997
Type
novel
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About this book

Redemption is Department Q's third entry, written by Jussi Adler-Olsen and published in 2013. The English translation is by Martin Aitken. The book is 631 pages long. It sits between Disgrace and Guilty in the series' reading order.

Key facts about Redemption

Redemption is a novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen. Readers have had it since 2013. It runs to 631 pages.

Our list holds 2 editions of Redemption. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780141399997 to find the main one.

Redemption is book 3 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

Redemption is book 3 in the Department Q series. It follows Disgrace. It is followed by Guilty. 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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