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  • Published: 3 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405909846
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464

Guilt

Department Q 4




The international bestseller - over 10 million copies sold

1987: Nete Hermansen, a young woman brutally assaulted in her youth, sterilised without her consent by a fanatical surgeon, and banished to Sprogo, the island for outcast women is planning her escape and her vengeance. And soon people begin to go missing and no one - certainly not the police - knows why, nor that individual cases are connected.

Today:Carl Mørck and his assistants Assad and Rose in Department Q are examining old missing persons cases and spot a disturbing pattern from 1987 . . .

  • Published: 3 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405909846
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464

About the author

Jussi Adler-Olsen

Jussi Adler-Olsen was born in Copenhagen and worked as a magazine editor and publisher before starting to write. Redemption is the third novel in the Department Q series, following on from Disgrace and Mercy. Jussi Adler-Olsen 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.

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Praise for Guilt

Adler-Olsen is the new "it" boy of Nordic Noir

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Engrossing

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Grippingly different

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