Mercy (Department Q) - Softcover

Adler-Olsen, Jussi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141399961 ISBN 13: 9780141399966

Publisher: Penguin, 2011

Synopsis

Hunted. Imprisoned. She’ll never beg for

Mercy

Jussi Adler-Olsen

The No. 1
International
Bestseller

Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen is Scandinavia’s new bestselling crime writing sensation...

At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows not go mad. She will not give her captors the satisfaction. She will die first.

Copenhagen detective Carl Mørck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. Everyone says she's dead. Everyone says it's a waste of time. He thinks they're right.

The voice in the dark is distorted, harsh and without mercy. It says the prisoner's torture will only end when she answers one simple question. It is one she has asked herself a million times:

WHY is this happening?

A dark and mysterious story, Mercy establishes Jussi Adler-Olsen as the master of the Nordic thriller.

‘This pitch-black novel will have readers hungry for more’ — Independent

‘The new “it” boy of Nordic Noir’ — The Times

‘Gripping storytelling’ — Guardian

Jussi Adler-Olsen was born in Copenhagen and worked as a magazine editor and publisher before starting to write fiction. Mercy, Disgrace and Redemption are the first three in currently four novels in the Department Q series. He holds the prestigious Glass Key Award, given annually for a crime novel by a Scandinavian author, and is also winner of the Golden Laurels, Denmark's highest literary accolade.

About this title

Review:

An unusually fine and extremely fascinating thriller which will keep you breathless till the very last page (politiken.dk)

Jussi Adler-Olsen tells his stories as wickedly as Dean Koontz and has his detectives work as hard as Stieg Larsson (Jydske Vestkysten)

From the Back Cover:

At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows not go mad. She will not give her captors the satisfaction. She will die first.

***

Copenhagen detective Carl Mørck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. Everyone says she's dead. Everyone says it's a waste of time. He thinks they're right.

***

The voice in the dark is distorted, harsh and without mercy. It says the prisoner's torture will only end when she answers one simple question. It is one she has asked herself a million times:

WHY is this happening?

'Gripping storytelling. Features all the hallmarks Scandi-book fans have come to adore' Guardian

'This pitch-black novel will have readers hungry for more . . . with an ingenuity as impressive as it is unnerving' Independent

'For those suffering withdrawals from The Killing' The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141399961
• ISBN 13: 9780141399966
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512