Click here to read reviewer Sandie Kirkland's take on The Absent One.
Jussi Adler-Olsen follows up The Keeper of Lost Causes with another novel featuring Carl Morck, head of department Q. Detective Morck
is just as feisty, irascible, and borderline anti-social as he was in the previous book. In The Absent One, he investigages a horrible double-murder cold case involving the deaths of a brother and sister many years
ago.
What makes the detective so engaging and loveable as a literary character is precisely that he is so unloveable and non-engaged. Readers are transfixed with his inability or simple unwillingness to follow
his chain of command or basic social etiquette.
At the heart of everything, however, is Morck's abilities to get the job done. Nothing will keep him from finding the culprit, and it makes no difference to him who might get trampled along the way in his pursuit of justice. This is a different kind of detective story that will keep you on your toes and a smile on your face.