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No Song for the Dead

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8th September 2026

Price: £25

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Selected: Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781529446968

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Former Head of Department Q Carl Mørck has retired. That was the plan, at least. So when he comes across a disturbing audio recording, he turns it over to his former colleagues, who are struggling to keep the old Department up and running on their own. That is, until a new transfer unexpectedly arrives – Helena Henry, a Frenchwoman who throws herself into the investigation with gusto . . . but who may also have secrets of her own.

As the team realizes that the audio recording might shed new light on a seemingly open-and-shut murder-suicide case from years earlier, suddenly everything they thought they knew about the case is called into question.

And meanwhile, a spurt of seemingly random violence – an explosion off the coast of Jutland, a young woman shot dead in Copenhagen – sets the Department Q team investigating a possible connection to a different long-ago dark and sinister event, one that someone has never forgotten.

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Reviews

Sunday Times
PRAISE FOR JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN'S DEPARTMENT Q SERIES: Quirky, tense and delightfully unpredictable
New York Times Book Review
Scandinavian crime novels don't get much darker than Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q police procedurals
Guardian
Gripping storytelling