Copenhagens Detective Carl M²rck is back and ready for action in the second Department Q novel from the “new it boy of Nordic Noir” (The Times, London).Carl M²rck has settled into Department Q and is ready to take on another cold case. This time, its the brutal double-murder of a brother and sister two decades earlier. One of the suspects confessed and is serving time, but its clear to M²rck that all is not what it seems. Kimmie, a homeless woman with secrets involving certain powerful individuals, could hold the keyif M²rck can track her down before they do...

Detective Carl Mørck investigates the twenty-year-old murders of a brother and sister whose confessed killer may actually be innocent, a case with ties to a homeless woman and powerful adversaries.