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Kvinden i buret

The woman in the cage

Volume 1 of Department Q

On a beautiful winter's day the young, progressive politician Merete Lynggaard disappears without a trace. The media are all over the story with their headlines suggesting everything from murder and suicide to a planned voluntary disappearance. The police immediately commence a large-scale investigation, alas with no result. Merete Lynggaard has vanished from the face of the earth.

Not until Carl Mørck, the deputy detective superintendent who has been through a lot in his time, is put in charge of the new department for "cases of special focus" is there a major breakthrough in the investigation. Soon Carl Mørck and his assistant Assad are tracing a reckless criminal, who driven by hate has set up an insane scheme of things.

The question is whether Carl Mørck and Assad will manage to prevent it or if they themselves will fall victims to it.

FILM RIGHTS

The film rights for the Department Q-series were purchased by the high-profiled and much acclaimed Danish production company Zentropa in 2008. The series is currently being adapted for screen versions and will be distributed internationally.

AWARDS AND PRIZES

Volume 3 of the series, Message in a Bottle, has been named best Danish crime novel of 2009 by the Danish Crime Writers' Association, who has awarded it the prestigous Harald Mogensen-award. In addition Adler-Olsen has won the Reader Bookprize 2010, elected via online voting at the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende. The summer 2010 he won the notable Swedish prize 'Glasnyckeln.

THE AUTHOR

Internationally acclaimed author Jussi Adler-Olsen made his debut in 1997 with the novel Alfabethuset which placed him on the bestseller-lists throughout Europe. Since then he has written several internationally best-selling thrillers and in 2007, the first volume in the Department Q-series saw the light of day. All volumes have been praised and have reached best-seller status. For more on Jussi go to his website

RIGHTS SOLD

Grupo Editorial Record / BRAZIL

Shang Shu Culture Media Co. / CHINA simplified characters

Fantasy Foundation / CHINA traditional characters / WCR

Host / CZECH REPUBLIC

Gummerus Publishers / FINLAND

Albin Michel / FRANCE

DTV / GERMANY

Diigisi / GREECE

Prometheus / HOLLAND

Animus Publishing / HUNGARY

Forlagid / ICELAND

Marsilio / ITALY

Hayakawa Publishing / JAPAN

Zvaigzne ABC Publishers Ltd. / LATVIA

Aschehoug / NORWAY

Terytoria / POLAND

Exmo / RUSSIA

Sallim / SOUTH KOREA

Maeva / SPAIN WSR

Bra Böcker / SWEDEN

Epsilon / TURKEY

Penguin / Michael Joseph / UK WER

Dutton / Penguin / USA

press

"Jussi Adler-Olsen has brought much needed new power into a rather claustrophobic and kliché-ridden practice of crime stories in Denmark. One might hope cautiously that the "cases of special focus" with Mørck & company will be made into a series. The potential is fully present". ***** JYLLANDSPOSTEN

"My arms are raised with pure joy (...) He is just as incredibly bestial in his acts as Dean Koontz and just as good at spinning a thriller as Stieg Larsson. " JYDSKE VESTKYSTEN