Department Q · Book 7
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.
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