The Scarred Woman
- Published
- 1 January 2017
- Pages
- 480
- ISBN-13
- 9781524702489
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Scarred Woman is Department Q's seventh entry, written by Jussi Adler-Olsen and published in 2017. The English translation is by William Frost. The book is 480 pages long. It sits between The Hanging Girl and Victim 2117 in the series' reading order.
Key facts about The Scarred Woman
Jussi Adler-Olsen wrote The Scarred Woman, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2017. The book has 480 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781524702489 to find the main one.
The Scarred Woman is book 7 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
The Scarred Woman is book 7 in the Department Q series. It follows The Hanging Girl. It is followed by Victim 2117. 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 9781784299798
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781524702489