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Department Q (Danish: Afdeling Q) is a series of ten Danish Nordic noir crime novels by author Jussi Adler-Olsen [1] which have been adapted in an ongoing series of highly successful Danish films and a forthcoming English language TV adaptation for Netflix which changes the setting from Denmark to Scotland.
Department Q is an American crime thriller television series created by Scott Frank, based on the book series of the same name by Jussi Adler-Olsen.
Feb 7, 2024 · If you're a fan of The Queens Gambit, then a new crime drama from the same creators is coming to Netflix titled Department Q, and here is everything you need to know about it.
Feb 12, 2024 · Here’s what we know so far. The series adaptation of Department Q has been in development since at least 2014, when the US TV rights to adapt the series were sold to Scott Frank, the lead creator of this series. In 2020, it was reported that Sony-owned Left Bank Pictures would produce Department Q.
- Male
- Senior Writer
- Mercy
- Disgrace
- Redemption
- Guilt
- Buried
- The Hanging Girl
- The Scarred Woman
Released as Mercy in the UK, and as The Keeper of Lost Causes in the US, the first book in the series lays a strong foundation. An operation that went disastrously wrong – leaving one colleague shot dead and another, Hardy, permanently paralysed – hangs heavily over detective Carl Mørck both professionally and personally. He is quickly established ...
Released as Disgrace in the UK and as The Absent One in the US, the second book sees the addition of Rose Knudsen to the Department Q team. Mørck cracks open a new case, this time the murder of a brother and sister in the family home. The suspects here are a group of privately educated upper crust types, who turn out to be the worst examples of whi...
Released as Redemption in the UK and as A Conspiracy of Faith in the US, book three proves that there’s nothing more romantic than a message in a bottle, unless it’s a harrowing cry for help written in blood by a captive child. After the bottle is discovered by British sailors, it eventually finds its way to Deptartment Q. When Rose fails to show u...
Published as Guilt in the UK and as The Purity of Vengeance in the US, book four reminds us of the old adage about revenge being a dish best served cold. The wronged party here is Nete Hermansen, a woman permanently damaged in her youth back in the 1950s, who later carries out her own form of vigilante justice. Her target is an arrogant group of eu...
Released as Buried in the UK and as The Marco Effect in the US, the fifth Department Q book lands us in the underbelly of Copenhagen where a group of Romani youth wander the streets looking for a mark to pickpocket. Meanwhile, 5,000 miles away an aid worker in Africa texts a final coded message before being executed by a Scandinavian syndicate that...
As seen in Redemption, the theme of religious zeal returns with a new age cult taking centre stage. This time, Carl Mørck and his colleagues take on a case that has stymied a retired policeman for many years: that of a beautiful teenage girl called Alberte Goldschmid. She was struck by a vehicle, throwing her body up into a tree, where she died. Sh...
Released in September 2017 in both the US and UK, The Scarred Woman gives us a lot more insight into the character of Rose, who appeared one day to become Carl Mørck’s assistant and never left. You can read our full review here. The story opens with the corpse of an elderly lady found in circumstances remarkably similar to another case in the Depar...
The story of Department Q is centred on a Detective in the Copenhagen Police Department Carl Morck and his colleagues Assad and Rose. Each character is effective at their job but also flawed and quirky with their own back stories and demons. Each book deals with specific criminal cases.
Feb 7, 2024 · The Scottish-based drama, adapted from Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen’s hugely popular crime novels, follows DCI Carl Morck (Goode), a detective who, after recovering from a violent incident,...
