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En la costa de Chipre rescatan el cadáver de una mujer procedente de Oriente Medio. En Barcelona, en la playa de Sant Miquel en la Barceloneta, Joan Aiguader, un periodista frustrado, cree tener su gran oportunidad profesional cuando ve un reportaje sobre el "contador de la vergüenza", que lleva un recuento del número de refugiados ahogados en el mar y que contabiliza a la mujer de Chipre como la víctima 2117.  

In The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adler-Olsen introduced Detective Carl Mørck, a deeply flawed, brilliant detective newly assigned to run Department Q, the home of Copenhagen’s coldest cases. The result wasn’t what Mørck - or readers - expected, but by the opening of Adler-Olsen’s shocking, fast-paced follow-up, Mørck is satisfied with the notion of picking up long-cold leads. So he’s naturally intrigued when a closed case lands on his desk: A brother and sister were brutally murdered two decades earlier....

In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive when he realizes that a new case is being foisted on him, but a few hours later he receives some shocking news that leaves his headstrong assistant, Rose, more furious than usual.

The newspaper refers to the body only as Victim 2117 - the 2117th refugee to die in the Mediterranean Sea. But to three people, the unnamed victim is so much more, and the death sets off a chain of events that throws Department Q, Copenhagen’s cold cases division led by Detective Carl Mørck, into a deeply dangerous - and deeply personal - case. A case that not only reveals dark secrets about the past, but has deadly implications for the future.

The newspaper refers to her only as Victim 2117 - the 2117th refugee to die in the Mediterranean Sea. But to three people, the victim is so much more, and her death sets off a chain of events that throws Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division led by Detective Carl Mørck, into a deeply dangerous - and deeply personal - case: a case that not only reveals dark secrets about the past, but has deadly implications for the future.

British pilots James Teasdale and Bryan Young have been chosen to conduct a special photo-reconnaissance mission near Dresden, Germany. Intelligence believes the Nazis are building new factories that could turn the tide of the war. When their plane is shot down, James and Bryan know they will be executed if captured. With an enemy patrol in pursuit, they manage to jump aboard a train reserved for senior SS soldiers wounded on the eastern front.

The unabridged, digital audiobook edition of Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Mercy, Scandinavia’s new bestselling crime phenomenon. Read by the actor Steven Pacey. At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows not to go mad. She will not give her captors the satisfaction.

Kimmie’s home is on the streets of Copenhagen. To live she must steal. She has learned to avoid the police and never to stay in one place for long. But now others are trying to find her. And they won’t rest until she has stopped moving - for good. Detective Carl of Department Q, the cold cases division, has received a file concerning the brutal murder of a brother and sister 20 years earlier. A group of boarding school students were the suspects at the time - until one of their numbers confessed and was convicted.

Detective Carl Morck has received a bottle that holds an old and decayed message written in blood. It's a cry for help from two young brothers, tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. After floating in the ocean for years before turning up, the bottle sat forgotten, unopened, on a police department windowsill, before the seal was cracked and the gruesome message, written in Danish, was analyzed. Could it be real? Who are these boys, and why weren't they reported missing? Could they possibly still be alive?

Jussi Adler-Olsen is Denmark's premier crime writer. His books routinely top the bestseller lists in northern Europe, and he's won just about every Nordic crime-writing award, including the prestigious Glass Key Award-also won by Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, and Jo Nesbo. Now, Dutton is thrilled to introduce him to America.

Le journal en parle comme de la "victime 2117" : une réfugiée qui, comme les deux mille cent seize autres qui l'ont précédée cette année, a péri en Méditerranée dans sa tentative désespérée de rejoindre l'Europe. Mais pour Assad, qui œuvre dans l'ombre du Département V de Copenhague depuis dix ans, cette mort est loin d'être anonyme. Elle le relie à son passé et fait resurgir de douloureux souvenirs. Il est temps pour lui d'en finir avec les secrets et de révéler à Carl Mørck et à son équipe d'où il vient et qui il est.

All fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson wants is to become a Danish citizen and go to school like a normal teenager. But his uncle Zola rules his former gypsy clan with an iron fist. Revered as a god and feared as a devil, Zola forces the children of the clan to beg and steal for his personal gain. When Marco discovers a dead body - proving the true extent of Zola's criminal activities - he goes on the run. But his family members aren't the only ones who'll go to any lengths to keep Marco silent - forever.

International superstar Jussi Adler-Olsen, with more than fourteen million copies of his books sold worldwide, returns with the fourth book in his New York Times best-selling Department Q series, about 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.

Nouveau défi pour le Département V de la police de Copenhague, en charge des affaires non résolues : un "serial" chauffard dont les victimes sont des femmes jeunes, jolies et... pauvres. Elles touchent les aides sociales et ne rêvent que d'une chose : devenir des stars de reality-show. Sans imaginer un instant qu'elles sont la cible d'une personne gravement déséquilibrée dont le but est de les éliminer une par une.

Vizepolizeikommissar Carl Mørck wird zur Aufklärung eines brutalen Todesfalls von der Mordkommission in Kopenhagen hinzugezogen. Wie sich herausstellt, gibt es eine Verbindung zu einem mehrere Jahre zurückliegenden und ausgesprochen brisanten cold case. Ausgerechnet jetzt geht es Carls Assistentin Rose sehr schlecht. Sie wird von grauenhaften Erinnerungen aus ihrer Vergangenheit heimgesucht. Sie kämpft mit aller Macht dagegen an - und gegen das Dunkel, in dem sie zu ertrinken droht. Und welche Rolle spielen die jungen Frauen Michelle, Jasmin und Denise, die sich zu einem starken und hochexplosiven Kleeblatt verbündet haben?

Auf Zypern wird eine Tote aus dem Wasser geborgen. Offenbar eine Geflüchtete aus dem Nahen Osten. Auf der sogenannten "Tafel der Schande" in Barcelona, wo die aktuelle Zahl der ertrunkenen Flüchtlinge angezeigt wird, ist sie das "Opfer 2117". Doch die alte Frau ist nicht ertrunken, sondern wurde ermordet. In Kopenhagen spielt der 22-jährige Alexander das Computerspiel "Kill Sublime". Das Foto des "Opfers 2117" hängt direkt vor ihm.

Nach dem Bestseller "Erbarmen" präsentiert Audible den zweiten Fall der Thriller-Hörspielserie "Sonderdezernat Q" um Carl Mørck. Mørck, der sich mit seinem Sonderdezernat Q mit alten, ungelösten Fällen beschäftigt, bekommt eine Akte untergeschoben. Darin geht es um einen brutalen Mord an einem Geschwisterpaar vor 20 Jahren. Der Verdacht fiel auf eine Gruppe Schüler eines exklusiven Internats, die für ihre Gewaltorgien bekannt waren. Einer von ihnen gestand. Warum ist die Akte jetzt auf Mørcks Schreibtisch gelandet? Wer will, dass der Fall wieder aufgerollt wird?

Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division, meets his toughest challenge yet when the dark, troubled past of one of his own team members collides with a sinister unsolved murder.

Eine Tote hing kopfüber in einem Baum und keiner weiß, was damals geschah. Siebzehn Jahre lang hat Polizeikommissar Habersaat versucht, den tragischen Tod der jungen Frau aufzuklären. Doch jetzt, kurz nachdem er das Sonderdezernat Q um Hilfe bittet, kommt er selbst auf schockierende Weise ums Leben - und wenig später stirbt auch sein Sohn. Die Recherchen bringen Carl Mørck und sein Team auf die Insel Öland, zu einem Mann, der mit seinen Heilsversprechen Sinnsucher aus ganz Europa anlockt.

When Bruce Jansen ascends to the White House, he is a changed man, determined to end gun violence by any means necessary. Rights are taken away as quickly as weapons. International travel becomes impossible. Checkpoints and roadblocks destroy infrastructure. The media is censored. Militias declare civil war on the government. The country is in chaos, and Jansen's former friends each find themselves fighting a very different battle, for themselves, their rights, their country... and, in Doggie's case, the life of her father, who just may be innocent.