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The Hanging Girl

Department Q, Book 6

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The Hanging Girl

By: Jussi Adler-Olsen, William Frost - translator
Narrated by: Steven Pacey
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The no. 1 international bestselling author

Winner of the Glass Key Award

In the middle of a hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive at first, but then he receives some shocking news. Carl then has no choice but to lead Department Q into the tragic cold case of a vivacious seventeen-year-old girl who vanished from school, only to be found dead hanging high up in a tree.

The investigation will take them from the remote island of Bornholm to a hidden cult, where Carl and his assistants must stop a string of new murders by a skilled manipulator who refuses to let anything - or anyone - get in the way.

Perfect for fans of Mick Herron, Tim Weaver and Jo Nesbo.

©2015 Jussi Adler-Olsen and William Frost (P)2022 Quercus Editions Limited Crime Fiction International Mystery & Crime Modern Detectives Mystery Police Procedural Fiction Island

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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.

Re released with Steven pacey

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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

Another brilliant read

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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

Excellent as always

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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.

Steven Pacey back

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

Great crime writer!

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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.

Another JAO triumph

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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.

Thoroughly enjoyable

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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.

brilliant, back on track, book 7??

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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.

Loving a charismatic is fatal!

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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.

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

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