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"International superstar Jussi Adler-Olsen, with more than fourteen million copies of his books sold worldwide, delivers his latest in the bestselling Department Q series? a perplexing cold case with sinister modern-day consequences. In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her in her youth, including Curt Wad, a charismatic surgeon who was part of a movement to sterilize wayward girls in 1950s Denmark. More than twenty years later, Detective Carl ; already has plenty on his mind when he is presented with the case of a brothel owner, a woman named Rita, who went missing in the eighties: New evidence has emerged in the case that destroyed the lives of his two partners-the case that sent Carl to Department Q. But when Carl's assistants, Assad and Rose, learn that numerous other people disappeared around the same weekend as Rita, Carl takes notice. As they sift through the disappearances, they get closer and closer to Curt Wad, who is more determined than ever to see the vision of his youth take hold and whose brutal treatment of Nete and others like her is only one small part of his capacity for evil."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Previously published as Journal 64 with a variant title of Journal fireogtreds in Danish. |
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After new evidence surfaces, Detective Carl Mø and his assistants look into the case of a brothel owner who went missing in the 1980s and discover that numerous other people went missing around the same time. |
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"International superstar Jussi Adler-Olsen, with more than fourteen million copies of his books sold worldwide, delivers his latest in the bestselling Department Q series ? a perplexing cold case with sinister modern-day consequences. In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her in her youth, including Curt Wad, a charismatic surgeon who was part of a movement to sterilize wayward girls in 1950s Denmark. More than twenty years later, Detective Carl ; already has plenty on his mind when he is presented with the case of a brothel owner, a woman named Rita, who went missing in the eighties: New evidence has emerged in the case that destroyed the lives of his two partners-the case that sent Carl to Department Q. But when Carl's assistants, Assad and Rose, learn that numerous other people disappeared around the same weekend as Rita, Carl takes notice. As they sift through the disappearances, they get closer and closer to Curt Wad, who is more determined than ever to see the vision of his youth take hold and whose brutal treatment of Nete and others like her is only one small part of his capacity for evil. "-- Provided by publisher. |
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Police -- Denmark -- Fiction.
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Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Revenge -- Fiction.
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Missing persons -- Investigation. |
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Police. |
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Revenge. |
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Copenhagen (Denmark) -- Fiction.
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Denmark. |
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Denmark -- Copenhagen. |
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Mystery Fiction.
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Detective and mystery stories.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Electronic books. |
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Detective and mystery stories.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Aitken, Martin, translator.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Adler-Olsen, Jussi. Purity of vengeance New York : Dutton, 2014 9780525954019 (DLC) 2013033253 (OCoLC)849719147 |
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9780698148468 : $48.00 |
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0698148460 : $48.00 |
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