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Department Q, Book 1
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Get to know the detective in charge of Copenhagen's coldest cases in the first electrifying Department Q mystery from New York Times best-selling author Jussi Adler-Olsen.
Carl Mørck used to be one of Denmark’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl - who didn’t draw his weapon - blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl’s 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. But she isn’t dead...yet.
Darkly humorous, propulsive, and atmospheric, The Keeper of Lost Causes introduces American listeners to the mega-bestselling series fast becoming an international sensation.
©2011 Jussi Adler-Olsen (P)2011 PenguinListeners also enjoyed...
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Very little of Sejer, a whole lot of Eva
- By John Barnett on 07-04-17
By: Karin Fossum
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The Chestnut Man
- A Novel
- By: Soren Sveistrup
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen. His calling card is a “chestnut man” - a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts - which he leaves at each bloody crime scene. Examining the dolls, forensics makes a shocking discovery - a fingerprint belonging to a young girl, a government minister’s daughter who had been kidnapped and murdered a year ago. A tragic coincidence - or something more twisted? To save innocent lives, a pair of detectives must put aside their differences to piece together the Chestnut Man’s gruesome clues.
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Good until it is wasn’t
- By chitty chitty bang bang on 10-09-19
By: Soren Sveistrup
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Depths
- A Novel
- By: Henning Mankell
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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October, 1914. Swedish naval officer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is charged with a secret mission to take depth readings around the Stockholm archipelago. In the course of his work, he lands on the rocky isle of Halsskär. It seems utterly inhabitable, yet Halsskär is home to the young widow Sara Fredrika. Lars soon learns that Sara, living in near-total isolation, is unaware that the world is at war.
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A different kind of story from Henning Mankell
- By Thomas Le Min on 10-30-24
By: Henning Mankell
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The Ice Princess
- By: Camilla Läckberg, Steven T. Murray - translator
- Narrated by: David Thorn
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Returning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen in an ice cold bath, it seems that she has taken her own life. Erica conceives a memoir about the beautiful but remote Alex, one that will answer questions about their lost friendship. While her interest grows to an obsession, local detective Patrik Hedstrom is following his own suspicions about the case.
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Difficult to get through.
- By Leigh on 09-12-15
By: Camilla Läckberg, and others
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The Son
- A Novel
- By: Jo Nesbø
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and complacent young man. Sonny’s been in prison for a dozen years, nearly half his life. The inmates who seek out his uncanny abilities to soothe leave his cell feeling absolved. They don’t know or care that Sonny has a serious heroin habit - or where or how he gets his uninterrupted supply of the drug. Or that he’s serving time for other peoples’ crimes. Sonny took the first steps toward addiction when his father took his own life rather than face exposure as a corrupt cop. Now Sonny is the seemingly malleable center of a whole infrastructure of corruption....
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A Break From The Harry Hole Series Is a Hit
- By Russell on 09-04-14
By: Jo Nesbø
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Wolf Hour
- A Novel
- By: Jo Nesbo, Robert Ferguson - translator
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2016. When a small-time criminal and gun dealer is shot down in the street, all signs point to Tomas Gomez, a quiet man with a mysterious past—and deep connections to a notorious gang—who has seemingly vanished into thin air. Other murders soon follow, and it appears Gomez is only getting started. Meanwhile, Bob Oz, a down-and-out suspended police officer with a dubious past of his own, becomes fascinated by the case.
By: Jo Nesbo, and others
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The Bat
- The First Inspector Harry Hole Novel
- By: Jo Nesbø, Don Bartlett
- Narrated by: Joh Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In the electrifying first installment of the New York Times bestselling series, Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. As he circles closer to the killer, Harry begins to fear that no one is safe, least of all those investigating the murder.
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Not as good as the others....
- By KP on 07-10-13
By: Jo Nesbø, and others
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The Darkness: A Thriller
- Hidden Iceland Series, Book 1
- By: Victoria Cribb - translator, Ragnar Jónasson
- Narrated by: Amanda Redman
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is quietly closed. Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavík police is forced into early retirement at 64. She dreads the loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that threaten to come back to haunt her. But before she leaves she is given two weeks to solve a single cold case of her choice.
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Can be difficult to follow
- By M.K. Davies on 09-19-19
By: Victoria Cribb - translator, and others
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Hidden in Snow
- The Åre Murders, Book 1
- By: Viveca Sten, Marlaine Delargy - translator
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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On the day Stockholm police officer Hanna Ahlander’s personal and professional lives crash, she takes refuge at her sister’s lodge in the Swedish ski resort paradise of Åre. But it’s a brief comfort. The entire village is shaken by the sudden vanishing of a local teenage girl. Hanna can’t help but investigate, and while searching for the missing person, she lands a job with the local police department. There she joins forces with Detective Inspector Daniel Lindskog, who has been tasked with finding the girl. Their only lead: a scarf in the snow.
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More of a soap opera than a mystery
- By Cheryl Lynn on 12-07-22
By: Viveca Sten, and others
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The Darkness Knows
- A Novel
- By: Arnaldur Indridason
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langjökull glacier, apparently that of a businessman who disappeared 30 years before. At the time, an extensive search and police investigation yielded no results - one of the missing man’s business associates was briefly held in custody, but there wasn’t enough evidence to charge him.
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Arnaldur once again shows he is a master of noir
- By George Woolley on 02-07-22
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Grimm Up North
- A DCI Harry Grimm Crime Novel
- By: David J. Gatward
- Narrated by: Aubrey Parsons
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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Detective Chief Inspector Harry Grimm is forced to take leave from Bristol’s Major Investigations Team when his boss, tired of Harry chasing the ghost of his murderous father, sends him north on secondment. Used to city life and high stress, Harry fears his life will now be spent handing out speeding tickets, finding lost sheep, and directing tourists. But when a local teenager runs away, Harry finds himself pulled into an investigation much worse than anyone could have ever expected.
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An enthralling and entertaining new mystery series
- By DianaInSC on 03-15-21
By: David J. Gatward
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Hero: A Simon Serrailler Short Story
- By: Susan Hill
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 51 mins
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When Simon Serrailler was a rookie constable with the Met, he did something reckless in the course of a night's work which caused a man's death. But his act was praised by his colleagues, and he was called a hero. Years later, now a detective chief superintendent who has been badly injured in the course of duty, he receives a medal for bravery at Buckingham Palace while recollecting that fateful night of his early career, when chance disguised itself as bravery.
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This 'story' makes no sense to me
- By Pamela Donaldson on 05-10-17
By: Susan Hill
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The Enigma Girl
- By: Henry Porter
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
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Slim Parsons is all but burned. When her last deep-cover job for MI5 ended with a life-and-death struggle on a private jet, she went on the run from her deadly target–a conniving businessman and money launderer codenamed “Hagfish." Now she's back at home, in hiding from her angry bosses in the Security Service, who have accused her of being overly violent and unsuitable for the role of an MI5 operative. But after several months off the grid, Slim is called back to another job–Operation Linesman–where she is asked to infiltrate a news website.
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Wild and twisted but not credible
- By Robert M. Baird on 06-08-25
By: Henry Porter
And Erik Davies? I don't agree with some who found him weak. On the contrary, he acts the parts well with clear definition and emotion... at least the emotion you'd expect in those grim, cold, dark places... Brrrrrrrr....
Dark, Cold, and Danish
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I've listened to this narrator in other books, mostly non fiction, and he was quite competent; so whoever was responsible for the direction of the audiobook also made questionable calls about how the characters were to be delivered in those atrocious and distracting accents.
I think? this is a good mystery -- The three stars for the story is arbritary: I can't concentrate on the story enough to decide if I would download a version by another narrator or try a print copy. Usually I can grow accustomed to odd narration styles and eventually get into a novel -- but so far am unable to with this one---not worth the annoyance!
ditto
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Terrible ending
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What made the experience of listening to The Keeper of Lost Causes the most enjoyable?
It seems like the Scandinavian people are generally an unhappy group of folks. This book starts out with all characters in a black mood which seems to fit the mold for books written by authors from this area. My thoughts for the first few hours of listening were that I wonder if it was time to move on. Stay with this otherwise you will miss out on a first class mystery/action type of book. I’m planning on getting the next in the series.Stay with this
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This book gives us a flawed character who almost everyone can relate to. Relegated to a make-work kind of job to "keep him out of sight" basically, Carl and his assistant actually make the small Department Q work and they investigate a cold case of the disappearance of a politician. It took me a little while to get into the swing of things but from then on it was great!
The narration was quite good. I honestly don't know how accurate the Danish accents were but each character was a bit different.
I'm glad there are more books in this series.
Great start to the series
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What did you like best about The Keeper of Lost Causes? What did you like least?
Initially, I was engaged in the dual storylines that toggled between 2002 and 2007. I thought that was well down and effective.Unfortunately, I found much to dislike about this book. The characters were not well developed and seemed derivative of other, better Scandanavian police novels. Assad is the only truly fresh character in the book. Also, key elements of the plot seemed implausible. Specifically, a member of the Danish Parliament goes missing in 2002 and,at that time, the police conduct a completely inadequate investigation. Seriously, a well-known elected official goes missing and no one digs below the surface to answer questions?
The book also suffers from the narrator's attempt at a Danish accent. This was very off-putting and I almost didn't continue with the book. It would be much better to just speak naturally and focus on adjusting his voice for the characters.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Lose the Danish accent. Make Carl Morck more interesting.Would you be willing to try another one of Erik Davies’s performances?
Possibly with a different narrator.Was The Keeper of Lost Causes worth the listening time?
I don't believe so.Don't Expect Jo Nesbo
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If you could sum up The Keeper of Lost Causes in three words, what would they be?
A good listen.Any additional comments?
I purchased this book partly because a previous reviewer call it "a total ripoff of the The girl with the dragon tattoo." Or somthing like that. I may be paraphrasing. I think they had meant it as a insult. but I figured what the heck,I loved that book. if this one is half as good I'd be stoked.Well I was stoked. but really the only similarities it shares with Stieg Larsson's book(s) is that they both are good mysteries and exciting thrillers set in Scandinavian countries.
I should also say I did find the narration with accents was a little odd,especially in the beginning. but it definetly wasn't a deal breaker.
Happy to have found this series.
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, Great Characters! Great story line! Set in Denmark which is new. Can you remember the last time Denmark was mentioned in a novel or movie......Creepy Twisted plot, really just a great book you need to jump into and enjoy
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
at times yes, what it did a great job at is keeping you in flux on who was going to get caught.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Almost did. Listened with my wife on a road trip. we actually drove past our hotel so we could listen a bit longer. Yup, we're dorks like that.Department Q Rocks!
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Addicting
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What disappointed you about The Keeper of Lost Causes?
But! I found the narrators varied accents incredibly annoying. Sorry I know he tried hard but the guy who performed THE MARCO EFFECT was so fantastic I went backwards to start over after listening to the Marco Effect. I would never have finished this book except that I want to listen to the entire series. Hoping the next narrators are better.What didn’t you like about Erik Davies’s performance?
he was fine until he tried to disguise his voice with a weird accent. Very annoying.Any additional comments?
looking forward to the next in the series. My first was the Marco Effect. Loved that book now I'm working my way through from the beginningI love this writer and I don't like to complain...
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