Locked In

A Department Q Novel, Book 10

De: Jussi Adler-Olsen, Caroline Waight - translator

Narrado por: Steven Pacey

The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series comes to a thrilling conclusion when the team must turn inward to solve the cold case that has put their own leader behind bars, a place where his enemies are plentiful and time is quickly running out.

On the day after Christmas, head of Department Q, Detective Carl Mørck, finds himself handcuffed in a police car headed for Copenhagen's Vestre prison. After fifteen years, a violent case from his past has caught up with him. Charges of drug trafficking and murder threaten to destroy his life and career. But he is being framed. Someone has a million-dollar bounty on his head to make sure he doesn't talk, putting him in grave danger among the prison's incarcerated criminals and corrupt officers. The question that remains is, Why?

Carl's colleagues at the Copenhagen Police Department instantly turn their backs on him, leaving the ever-loyal Department Q team as his only hope. In search of answers, Rose, Assad, and Gordon must disobey direct orders from way up the chain to try to unravel the case. With only one another to trust and Carl's battle against the unknown mastermind's henchmen worsening by the day, they must work faster than ever before if they are to clear his name—and save his life.

©2024 Jussi Adler-Olsen (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Adler-Olsen sends this excellent series out on a high note, reaping the benefits of his deep character work in the previous novels. Fans will be thrilled.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“Verklempt series fans will want to start this series’ ride over again.”—Booklist

Incredible finish to a great series

I have been waiting for the audio book for months, if not years! I had pre-ordered it before I went blind, so I now had to buy Audible version. I have always loved the characters, the plot, the reveal over time. I had just finished another authors finale with disappointment. This did not disappoint. The narrator was excellent. A beautiful bringing together of all threads. But I recommend you read them in order. Highest praise for a crime series.

Great end to the 10 book series

Each book in this series was incredibly interesting.
Loved how the series came full circle. What a great finale.

Excellent!

what a great way to spend time. listening to a story about great characters, well conceived story. just so entertaining. Just what I needed. last one in the series? Probably, but hopefully not.

Brilliant

I will miss Department Q! Thank you Jussi for the many hours of smiles, thrills, mysteries, grumpy inspired Carl, wonderful Assad and the whole Q family. Thank goodness I can go back and listen to them all again!

Roller Coaster Ride

This latest and hopefully not last Department Q book was twisty-turny, scary, and incredible. The author pulled out all the stops… maybe it’s the finale? Who knows…but it is a well crafted, complex story and satisfying. As others have commented, the narrator has a limited repertoire of accents, especially some of the minor characters. What’s going on with Eddie the cop from Rotterdam? He and his wife sounded like lispy Peter Lorre characters. Luckily for me I was able to get past the wonky narration and get immersed in the story. Someday soon I’ll go back and listen to the series again in order.

is this really the end, my friend...........

I spent most of this book wondering if Carl was going to be killed by the bad actors and that's how the series would end. You couldn't miss that this was supposed to be the last book in the series, it seemed to be stated everywhere. But with a little research, looking it up in the author's website mostly, the series was always intended to be a 10-book series.

But since Carl doesn't get killed off, we fans can always hope that in some way, shape or form the series or a subset thereof could appear at some point. Probably not but we can always hope.

I will state that the first book in the series, 'The Keeper of Lost Causes' is one of my all-time favorite books and spurred me on to look forward to and enjoy the author and the rest of the books in the series.

And, this story, it's a good one. There are lots of references to characters and instances from earlier in the series, the author kind of tidying up things as he ends the series.

Thank you, Jussi Adler-Olsen for Department Q!

Listen to the entire series!!

This is the last chapter in one of the best detective series available. Very engaging, with wonderfully full characters!

A bit long but very nice conclusion of series

Great conclusion of a series that I have enjoyed a lot. Great characters and the author tied up all loose threads in a nice bow. However the first half of the book is drifting a bit and feels unnecessarily long. Second half has got a good drive/edge. One major setback was the switch of narrators. The new guy tried his best but using UK accents for the different characters just felt off. Not to mentioned what happened with the Dutch characters’ accents?!That said I don’t think you will be disappointed if you’ve followed Carl, Assad, Rose and Gordon over the years.

JUSSI ADLER-OLSON NEVER DISAPPOINTS

This story needed to be told to clear up many references in past books. Although, I’m not a fan of prison stories, it held my interest. Overall, a good read, especially if you’ve read all of Jussi Adler-Olson’s Department Q novels in order!

New narrator doesn't match up to previous narrator

This is a great story as are all of the Department Q novels, but the switch in narrators was a mistake. The accents are all over the place, especially Assad, which I can't even figure out. It's definitely unlike any Middle Eastern accent that I've heard. The camel similes just don't have the same effect. Disappointing. I would rather have read the print version.