The Absent One: A Department Q Novel Jory John Avery and her colleagues

Avery and her colleagues

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this short novel for younger middle grade readers explores themes of empathy

The Absent One: A Department Q Novel Jory John Avery and her colleaguesCopenhagens Detective Carl Mrck is back and ready for action in the second Department Q novel from the new it boy of Nordic Noir (The Times, London). Carl Mrck has settled into Department Q and is ready to take on another cold case. This time, its the brutal double murder of a brother and sister two decades earlier. One of the suspects confessed and is serving time, but its clear to Mrck that all is not what it seems. Kimmie, a homeless woman with