The purity of vengeance: a Department Q novel

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Aitken, Martin

Adler-Olsen, Jussi

Aitken, Martintranslator.|Translator

Adler-Olsen, Jussi

Athens Drive Community
Eva H. Perry Regional
Leesville Community
North Regional

Mystery

Athens Drive Community - Mystery
Eva H. Perry Regional - Mystery
Leesville Community - Mystery
North Regional - Mystery
Remote Storage - Mystery

" International superstar Jussi Adler-Olsen, with more than fourteen million copies of his books sold worldwide, delivers his latest in the bestselling Department Q series ? a perplexing cold case with sinister modern-day consequences. 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 ; already has plenty on his mind when he is presented with the case of a brothel owner, a woman named Rita, who went missing in the eighties: New evidence has emerged in the case that destroyed the lives of his two partners-the case that sent Carl to Department Q. But when Carl's assistants, Assad and Rose, 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 hisyouth take hold and whose brutal treatment of Nete and others like her is only one small part of his capacity for evil. "-- "International superstar Jussi Adler-Olsen, with more than fourteen million copies of his books sold worldwide, delivers his latest in the bestselling Department Q series ? a perplexing cold case with sinister modern-day consequences. 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 ; already has plenty on his mind when he is presented with the case of a brothel owner, a woman named Rita, who went missing in the eighties: New evidence has emerged in the case that destroyed the lives of his two partners-the case that sent Carl to Department Q. But when Carl's assistants, Assad and Rose, 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. "--

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Fiction

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Wake County Public Libraries

Athens Drive Community
Eva H. Perry Regional
Leesville Community
North Regional

9780525954019

2013
2014

Dreamscape Media
Dutton Adult

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The purity of vengeance : a Department Q novel

The Purity of Vengeance
The purity of vengeance : a Department Q novel / Jussi Adler-Olsen ; translated by Martin Aitken

The purity of vengeance

a Department Q novel

Fiction
Mystery
Suspense
Thriller