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Disgrace

Department Q, Book 2

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Disgrace

By: Jussi Adler-Olsen
Narrated by: Steven Pacey
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The unabridged, digital audiobook edition of Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Disgrace, the second instalment from Scandinavia’s new best-selling crime writing sensation. Read by the actor Steven Pacey.

Kimmie’s home is on the streets of Copenhagen. To live she must steal. She has learned to avoid the police and never to stay in one place for long. But now others are trying to find her. And they won’t rest until she has stopped moving - for good.

Detective Carl of Department Q, the cold cases division, has received a file concerning the brutal murder of a brother and sister 20 years earlier. A group of boarding school students were the suspects at the time - until one of their numbers confessed and was convicted. So why is the file of a closed case on Carl’s desk? Who put it there? Who believes the case is not solved?

A police detective wants to talk to Kimmie and someone else is asking questions about her. They know she carries secrets certain powerful people want to stay buried deep. But Kimmie has one of her own. It’s the biggest secret of them all. And she can’t wait to share it with them….

©2012 Jussi Adler-Olsen (P)2012 Penguin Audio Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting Scary Cold Case Mystery

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I couldn't stop listening to this. The plot has some very distasteful elements but what do you expect in a novel based around a homicide detective? Murder is always going to be the tip of an unpleasant iceberg.

I think the narration is excellent. The characters are all individually voiced (although this entails giving them different UK regional accents, each one is convincing, to me at least as a Londoner).

I assume this is translated and if so the translation is excellent too.

I shall certainly buy the other books by this author and look for other narrations by Stephen Pacey.

Shocking but gripping

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

The story is wonderful, but the narration lifts it to another level. Mr Pacey's characterisations, in particular of Assad, makes this unmissable. This is an example of why many books are better heard than read.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Karl is a very interesting lead character

Which character – as performed by Steven Pacey – was your favourite?

Assad! Inspired performance (as in all books in the series)

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

The best of Scandanavian noir

Any additional comments?

As long as this team of author and narrator keep producing books, they will have at least one customer!

Gripping story, masterful narration

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Love the two secondary characters. I notice the main man is more into his job now which is a shame - quite like the anti hero thing in book one. But love the complexity of him.

Great book

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I started listening to this series as Steven Pacey is the narrator and I am not sorry one bit. The first book was okay, it dragged a little near the end, but it was interesting enough. The second one is better, and hopefully next one will be too.

Good crime listen

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This series really is something special. Books that can both make me laugh and keep in genuine suspense are few and far between. And yet Jussi Adler Olsen achieves both in strong measures with his well crafted plots and finely detailed characters. Sure you will find detective story cliches in here, the disaffected central character, the bosses that are more hindrance than help and so on but Olsen surrounds his man with characters that challenge his thinking on almost every level,

Pacey is a great choice as narrator and delivers with considerable panache making this one of my favourite Audible series to date!

One note, this is the second of the series and while it could stand alone I am sure it is worth reading these in order to get the best out of the characters..

A Unique Combination

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Take a gripping story and mix it with the best narrator out there and this is the result. A great story, that had me hooked from beginning to end. It is not often I read books from the same series back to back but I'll be starting on book three immediately. Get involved, you won't regret it.!

Gripping stuff

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This was a fairly relaxed and undemanding narrative, despite the mayhem and violence. I do not like the narrator's practice of using British dialects to characterise various Scandinavian groups.

The villains were suitably unbelievable but the central characters (who continue hopefully throughout the series) are satisfying enough. I will read the next in the series soon.

Not bad... carries the series along

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The themes of the novel are dark but they have been handled with care and sensitivity. This gives the reader opportunities for insight without being left with a sense that the plot and the events were written simply to satisfy the author's needs. Too often I start to read a crime novel and then put the book down and leave it down because it feels like the writer has a need to purge to themselves or is writing purely to attract readers who are attracted to gratuitous violence. I was a little sceptical at first about some of the characterisation but as I read on the personalities rang as true. A really good read and I will look for more by this author.

Loved this book

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Hard to explain I found the story entirely captivating. Although aspects are "known" early on, this still works as a compelling novel.

Just loved it

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There are two key things that I love about this series: the narrator and the characters of Dept Q. There is an honesty about people, so no one is without their faults but this a source of great humour too. This balances out (just) the extremely dark storyline. The narrator makes the characters utterly convincing even when they are far fetched as in the 'villains' of this book. It's not a whodunnit, more a journey of how the detectives unravel what happened. The depth and detail that the author puts into his main characters makes these books worthwhile.

Violent, Dark but Original Listen

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