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Loading... The Purity of Vengeance: A Department Q Novel (Department Q Novels) (original 2010; edition 2014)by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Work InformationThe Purity of Vengeance by Jussi Adler-Olsen (2010)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Naar aanleiding van een gewelddadige overval op een bordeelhoudster in Kopenhagen duikt Rose, de eigenzinnige assistente van brigadier Carl Mørck, op de kwestie van een jaren geleden verdwenen prostituee _ een van de vele onopgehelderde zaken die de afdeling Q moet oplossen. Wanneer Mørck en zijn collega Assad worden gedwongen de zaak te onderzoeken, komen er verdachte aanwijzingen boven water over een eiland waar de Deense overheid vroeger lichtzinnige vrouwen naartoe stuurde, die vervolgens waren overgeleverd aan de luimen van het bewakend personeel. Mørck en Assad ontdekken algauw dat dit slechts het topje van de ijsberg is van een ongehoorde vorm van mensenrechtenschending, die meer dan een halve eeuw geleden is begonnen en blijkbaar nog steeds gaande is. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesDepartment Q (4) Belongs to Publisher SeriesFarfalle [Marsilio] (220) Tascabili [Marsilio] (405)
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML: 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 Morck is presented with the case of a brothel owner, a woman named Rita, who went missing in the eighties. But when Carl's assistants 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. .No library descriptions found. |
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Enjoyed it - Assad is fleshed out a teensy bit more, and Rose's character gets more back story. Half of these is - for me, anyway - is the enjoyment of the characters. The other half is the mystery. Enjoyed this one so much that I immediately jumped into the next book in the series when I finished this one. ( )