Another JAO triumph

it’s not just a very clever, credible and complicated plot. It is woven together by very human, developed, intricate and believable characters. Stephen Pacey’s story-telling is, as usual, utterly compelling.

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brilliant, back on track, book 7??

i've avoided book 6 & 7 based on the narrator, but kept faith with story and the new (true) narrator and the whole series is back on track.steven pacey is the only karl.

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Re released with Steven pacey

I bought this for a second time, I had to give up on the original narrator who was dreadful. Steven pacey is perfect for this series, I really enjoyed the book this time round, it's a bit long and could have been edited down, but it's a great story and I love the interplay between the characters.

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Another brilliant read

All the well loved aspects of Dept Q dynamics rolling here again in this new offer.
Laugh out loud moments throughout
Steven Pacey as ever is the essential ingredient to the audio
He IS Dept Q on audio no doubt

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Excellent as always

Another great book which I enjoyed from start to finish.

I love how the three such different people work together and their interraction as well

Narration great too

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Steven Pacey back

Another good story involving the team from Department Q brilliantly brought to life through the excellent narration by Steven Pacey. He is so good I purchased this title again just to have his interpretation. Hopefully book 7 in the series The Scarred Women will be re-recorded with Steven Pacey doing the narration.

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Great crime writer!

I especially like the character development throughout the books. And the personality of the main characters is very funny.

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Thoroughly enjoyable

Thoroughly enjoyed this book, only complaint a little long but interesting and well written and I am sure you will enjoy it if you are a fan of Scandi noir.

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Loving a charismatic is fatal!

As usual in any Dept Q book, there's two storylines that are destined to converge.
To ensure that Carl takes on a cold case that he had earlier rejected, retiring police patrolman Habersaat commits suicide, shaming him into action. Seventeen years ago a girl went missing on the Danish island of Bornholm & was found the next day hanging high up in a tree; it was redeemed a case of hit & run that was never solved. It became the officers obsession, that he privately continued to investigate. Carl, Rose & Assad and newbie Gordon shift through the old evidence, his notes that include a grainy photo of a young man & a campervan. It's soon becomes clear that this is a murder investigation, dead end after dead end cause the team frustration, but once they're on a case there's no stopping them.
The parallel story involves a nature-sun worship cult headed by Atu Abanshamash Dumuzi aka Frank. He's a man whose charm women find irresistible and whose assistant Pirjo is a women possessed where he's concerned. She has no scruples regarding removing, for good any female followers she deems competition to her role in his life. Found the alternative life-style, mystic beliefs, new age threads sympathetically handled and of interest.
Now I thought I knew whodunnit, was the cold case's killer and why, but I was soooo wrong. The final twist was as sad as it was clever - lives destroyed over jealousy, obsessive love & family loyalty.
The Dept Q back stories remain tantalising, with new evidence on the bolt-gun murder case that paralised Hardy, traumalised Carl, plus a hint re Assad's. Although keen to follow these developments, book 7, curranty has a different narrator, am hoping it will be soon re-recoded with Steven Pacey as this audio book was.

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Brilliant. I’d leave 10 star review if I could

What a combination, the story the characters the author, the narrator
A sublime crime thriller in my book that rates 10 stars.
I have many Yusi Adler Olsen books in my library, so I will be looking for the earlier books I have and re-listening.

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