jussi adler-olsen – Cannonball Read 17

The Patriarchal Cult

The Purity of Vengeance by Jussi Adler-Olsen

July 24, 2025 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: green cover. See photo. I’ve had some major life changes this year; mostly good, some not so good. As a result, I’m not only behind on my reading but I’m not cataloging here like I usually do. Maybe at some point, I’ll do a series of posts on the books I’ve read this year that I just didn’t have time or energy to write about. I lift this up because I’ve been diving through the Department Q series thanks […]

Misanthrope

The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen

June 2, 2025 by Jake 2 Comments

I was about halfway through The Keeper of Lost Causes and wondering why I was enjoying it. Everything about it is good, not great, from the misanthropic detective, to the unlikely sidekick, to the mystery itself. It kept landing with me and it took me a while to figure out why… It’s a recognizable story. I never went through anything as horrible as the fictional Carl Mørck did but I do know what it’s like to be screwed over by your superiors, blamed for things that aren’t […]

Bigger Is Not Always Better

Victim 2117 by Jussi Adler-Olsen

December 20, 2019 by blauracke Leave a Comment

A body on a beach in Cyprus is registered as the 2117th death of a refugee in the Mediterranean Sea. The cause of death, however, is not drowning but murder. Detective Carl Mørck from the Department Q in Copenhagen becomes involved because his assistant Assad recognizes the dead woman. This is the 8th entry in the Department Q series and the first one I wish I had skipped. The previous books were operating on a much smaller scale in that they were concerned with events […]

A Conspiracy of Faith

January 23, 2014 by Jen K Leave a Comment

This has definitely been one of my more entertaining reads so far this year. The third novel in the series, this novel once again features Carl Morck and Department Q of Copenhagen’s police force. Just like in his last two novels, Adler-Olsen flashes back and forth between the cold case squad and either the victims or perpetrators of a current crime that relates to the investigation. One reason I think I like these as much as I do is that unlike many other crime novels, […]

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