{"id":6844,"date":"2018-09-10T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=6844"},"modified":"2018-09-09T12:57:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T11:57:48","slug":"books-the-keeper-of-lost-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/books-the-keeper-of-lost-causes\/","title":{"rendered":"Books: The Keeper of Lost Causes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished a book by one of my favourite authors<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen is one of my favourites when it comes to thrillers. I find his books about the Department Q a fictional group working with cold cases to be most entertaining. Here is the first in the series.<\/p>\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-none\">\n<h5 id=\"title\" class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">The Keeper of Lost Causes: The First Department Q Novel\u00a0<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bylineInfo\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature\">by\u00a0<span class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\"><span class=\"a-declarative\" data-action=\"a-popover\" data-a-popover=\"{&quot;closeButtonLabel&quot;:&quot;Close Author Dialog Popover&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;contributor-info-B0043BVIJE&quot;,&quot;position&quot;:&quot;triggerBottom&quot;,&quot;popoverLabel&quot;:&quot;Author Dialog Popover&quot;,&quot;allowLinkDefault&quot;:&quot;true&quot;}\">Jussi Adler-Olsen\u00a0<i class=\"a-icon a-icon-popover\"><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"contribution\"><span class=\"a-color-secondary\">(Author),\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\">Lisa Hartford\u00a0<span class=\"contribution\"><span class=\"a-color-secondary\">(Translator)<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"su-row\"><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-2-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">Carl M\u00f8rck used to be one of Denmark\u2019s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl\u2014who didn\u2019t draw his weapon\u2014blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl\u2019s got only a stack of cold cases for company. His colleagues snicker, but Carl may have the last laugh, because one file keeps nagging at him: a liberal politician vanished five years earlier and is presumed dead. 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