Redemption by Jussi Adler-Olsen - ISBN: 9780141399997
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A message in blood. Two missing boys. Time is running out.

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  • Paperback

    640 pages

  • Release Date

    25 September 2013

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Summary

The internationally bestselling author of Mercy and Disgrace returns with his third heart-stopping Department Q novel.

Two boys, brothers, wake tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. Their kidnapper has gone, but soon he will return. Their bonds are inescapable. But there is a bottle and tar to seal it. Paper and a splinter for writing; blood for ink. A message begging for help.

In Copenhagen’s cold cases division, Carl Mørck has received a bottle. It hold…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141399997
ISBN-10:0141399996
Author:Jussi Adler-Olsen, Martin Aitken
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:640
Edition:3rd
Release Date:25 September 2013
Weight:439g
Dimensions:197mm x 128mm x 38mm
Series:Department Q
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Critics Review

This is your methadone if you enjoyed The Killing and found it overwhelmingly addictive

Grippingly different * The Times *This is your methadone if you enjoyed The Killing and found it overwhelmingly addictive * BBC Radio 2 Claudia Winkleman Arts Show *A weighty and disturbing novel … with an ingenuity as impressive as it is unnerving * Independent *

About The Author

Jussi Adler-Olsen

Jussi Adler-Olsen (Author)

Jussi Adler-Olsen was born in Copenhagen and worked as a magazine editor and publisher before starting to write fiction. Buried is the fifth novel in the Department Q series, following on from Redemption, Disgrace, Mercy and Guilt. He holds the prestigious Glass Key Award, given annually for a crime novel by a Scandinavian author, and is also winner of the Golden Laurels, Denmark’s highest literary accolade.

Martin Aitken (Translator)

Martin Aitken’s translations of Scandinavian fiction are widely published. His work has appeared on the shortlists of the International Booker Prize, the Dublin Literary Award and the US National Book Awards, among other prizes. He received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019 and, for the first book in the Morning Star cycle, the US National Translation Award in Prose in 2022. He lives in Denmark.

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