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- The Keeper of Lost Causes. October 3, 2013. Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a ferry five years ago.
- The Absent One. October 2, 2014. Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994.
- A Conspiracy of Faith. March 3, 2016. Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department Q follow a sinister trail that leads them to investigate a case that occurred in 2008.
- The Purity of Vengeance. October 4, 2018. Copenhagen, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q leads them to an infamous institution for girls that was suddenly closed in the early sixties.
Department Q (Danish: Afdeling Q) is a series of ten Danish Nordic noir crime novels by author Jussi Adler-Olsen which have been adapted in an ongoing series of highly successful Danish films and a forthcoming English language TV adaptation for Netflix which changes the setting from Denmark to Scotland.
- Patrik AndrénUno HelmerssonJohan Söderqvist
- Peter Aalbæk JensenLouise Vesth
- Mikkel Nørgaard [ da; no]
- Nikolaj Arcel
Feb 12, 2024 · Netflix’s Department Q is an adaptation of author Jussi Adler-Olsen ‘s noir-thriller book series of the same name. Here’s the synopsis for the first book in the Department Q series, The Keeper of Lost Causes: Carl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen’s best homicide detectives.
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Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a ferry five years ago.
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- The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013) Carl Mørck is demoted to Department Q, the cold case unit, after a raid he instigated goes wrong. One case, a suspected suicide, piques his interest.
- The Absent One (2014) The story centers around the murder of twins in 1994, one of whom was also raped. At first unwilling to get involved in the case, Mørck changes his mind after their father commits suicide after approaching him one night and leaving behind a box of material on the case he has been collecting for years.
- A Conspiracy of Faith (2016) An 8-year-old message in a bottle, written in blood, leads Detective Carl Morck and his assistant Assad to a series of child abductions from religious communities throughout Denmark.
- The Purity of Vengeance (2018) Two workers accidentally discover a disturbing scene in an old apartment in Copenhagen: hidden behind a false wall are three mummified corpses placed in a sitting position at a table next to another empty seat.
Based on Jussi Adler-Olsen’s international bestsellers, the riveting Department Q series introduces maverick detective Carl Mørck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) who, after majorly botching an assignment, is relegated to reviewing cold cases.
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A shocking cold case heats up when maverick detective Carl Mørck is put on the job in the riveting first film in the Department Q series. Based on the best-selling novels.
