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.
Key facts about The Shadow Murders
The Shadow Murders is a novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen. Readers have had it since 2022. It runs to 742 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of The Shadow Murders. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781524742584 to find the main one.
The Shadow Murders is book 9 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 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