Department Q · Book 9
The Shadow Murders
- Published
- 1 January 2022
- Pages
- 742
- ISBN-13
- 9781524742584
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Shadow Murders is the ninth installment of the Department Q series by Jussi Adler-Olsen, published in 2022. It reaches English-language readers in a translation by William Frost. At 742 pages, it is a full-length entry in the series. Victim 2117 comes before it, and Locked In follows.
Its place in Department Q
The Shadow Murders is book 9 in the Department Q series. It follows Victim 2117. It is followed by Locked In. 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 9780593632659
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781524742584