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The Washington Decree
The Purity of Vengeance
The Marco Effect
The Hanging Girl
The Scarred Woman
Victim 2117
The Shadow Murders
Locked In
The Alphabet House
The Keeper of Lost Causes
The Absent One
A Conspiracy of Faith

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Jussi Adler-Olsen is most well known for his Department Q mystery series, which has a strong dose of humour alongside clever psychological thrills. Jussi purposely writes comedy into his novels, saying: “Laughter releases endorphins in your brain. This substance creates positive thoughts and a good mood. You become more receptive to new impressions and thereby better equipped to sense moods and a better and more alert reader. When you laugh while reading my novels, it increases your connection to the characters you read about and makes troublesome scenes easier to cope with.”

The humour often disguises the more serious, dark themes in his novels, which explore how crimes emerge from abuses of power and the trauma that ensues. He says, “I hate power abuse and injustice and in every one of my novels, I tell a version of power abuse and show ways in which you can break it. I am convinced that my readers do not just want to be entertained – of course, they also want that – but they also want to learn something and take something with them, which invites reflection. One reason why I chose to write criminal thrillers is that I thereby can touch upon every subject. Evil is a useful tool and when you describe the contrast between good and evil, you can send a message.”

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The Overlook
The Darkest Evening
Trace Elements
The Critic
Restless in the Grave
The Deep Dark Descending
Return to Sender: A Longmire Mystery
The Old Fox Deceiv'd
Troubled Blood
Den of Iniquity
The Perfect Suspect
Mrs. Pollifax
The Tin Roof Blowdown
Not Dark Yet
Love
Venus in Copper
Motor Mouth
Dead by Dawn
Borrower of the Night: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
Edge of Eternity
The Disappeared
A Spot of Folly
The Missing Corpse: A Brittany Mystery
Beneath the Bleeding
Gwendy's Button Box
A Colder Kind of Death
A Twist of the Knife
Cimarron Rose
Made for Murders
But For The Grace: A DC Smith Investigation
Hung Out to Die
Pushing Up Daisies
Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?
Listen to Me
Callander Square
The Shoeshine Man's Regrets
Mile 81
The Bone Garden
Echo Park
Life Sentences
The Madness of Crowds
O Jerusalem
Clown Town
Killing Time: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
Daisy Darker
And Justice There Is None
Hunter's Moon
The Shifting Tide: A William Monk Novel
Witch
The Best American Mystery Stories 2018
The Naming of the Dead
Gallows View: The First Inspector Banks Novel
L is for Lawless
The Careful Use of Compliments
The Crocodile Bird
Miss Pym Disposes
The Girl Next Door
Hardcore Twenty-Four
Whisper to the Blood
Lethal Prey
Elevation
The Skeleton in the Closet
Midnight Come Again
Long Bright River
The Lost Boys: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
Report for Murder
Death of a Green-Eyed Monster
Piece of My Heart: An Inspector Banks Novel
Careless in Red
Under the Knife
The Marriage of Mary Russell
One False Move
Want You Dead
India Gray
The Tree of Hands
The Son: A Novel
Blockade Billy
Gideon's Sword
One by One
Guilt: An Alex Delaware Novel
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Sea Fever
Twelve Sharp
Do You Remember?
Blue Heaven
Hints of Heliose
Two Graves
The Luckiest Woman Ever
The Sea King's Daughter
In a House of Lies
Q is for Quarry
A Christmas Homecoming
Code to Zero
The Copenhagen Connection
Elevator Pitch
The Collectors
Angel's Bidding
Lady in the Lake
Killing the Shadows
The Chalice of Blood
The Second Death
A Duty to the Dead
The Stolen Hours
The Fleur de Sel Murders: A Brittany Mystery
Ropa Vieja
Bruno's Challenge and Other Stories of the French Countryside
Knife Creek
Among the Wicked
The Teacher
Kick Back
To Fear a Painted Devil
Trigger Mortis
Gun Games
House of Stone
For the Sake of Elena
Heaven's Keep
The Bounty
Revenge in a Cold River: A William Monk Novel
Blue Lightning
The Unlikely Spy
Bewreathed: A Deborah Knott Short Story
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Winter's Child
Cause of Death
The Walker in the Shadows
Chrysalis
In a Dry Season
Hidden Prey
The Temptation of Forgiveness
A Distant View of Everything
Gone
Corpus Christmas
The Therapist
A Breach of Promise: A William Monk Novel
Death in the Cards
Half Moon Street
The Island
Rebus' Scotland
The Kizuna Coast
Dark Assassin: A William Monk Novel
Whistle: A Novel
The Wailing Wind
The Kate Shugak Investigations: Books 1-9
The Hidden One
Death Row
The Drowning Man
The Theory of Death
Cop to Corpse
Away with the Fairies
No Good Deeds
Watershed
By a Spider's Thread
Slow Burner
Reconstruction
The Tooth Tattoo
Murder on the Red River
A Question of Identity
Dead Like You
The Family Remains
Saving Emma
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A Christmas Escape: A Novel
Fool's Bluff
The Runner
Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions
Blow Fly
You Will Never Be Me
Uncertain Voyage: A Novel
Grave of the Lawgiver
Billy Straight: A Novel
A Christmas Gathering
Turbo Twenty-Three
One Of Us Is Dead
Cocaine Blues
Dial A for Aunties
Blacklist: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
High Country Fall
What Child Is This
The Various Haunts of Men
Chinese Whispers
The Case Has Altered: A Richard Jury Mystery
The Deepest Blue: A Short Story
Wicked Appetite
The Locked Room
Outlaw Mountain
Sharp Force
Long Spoon Lane
Dust: A Richard Jury Mystery
A Conspiracy of Faith
Below Zero
Victim 2117
The Dark on the Other Side
Winter's Child
The One Thing More
Dixie City Jam
The Western Star: A Longmire Mystery
Knots and Crosses
Smoke and Murders
Westwind
Mary's Christmas
End Game
Stagestruck
The Scarpetta Factor
An Irish Hostage
In Their Footsteps
Death of an Honest Man
Queen of Hearts
The Last Place
Good Bad Girl
The Vinegar Mother
The Retribution
Stalker: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel
One True Love
Hard Eight
Hot to Trot: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
Leave the Grave Green
Devil's Food
The Singing of the Dead
The Murder Stone: A Novel of Suspense
The Killing Room
The Wire in the Blood
One for the Money
Force of Nature
Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death
The Kingdom
Flesh and Blood
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
Shake Hands Forever
False Witness: A Novel
The Daughter of Time
Girls' Night Out: A J. P. Beaumont Short Story
The Vanishing Box
The Château Murder
There Goes the Bride
A Cold Treachery
Darkest Before the Dawn
Cain His Brother: A William Monk Novel
The Keys to the Street
I Know a Secret: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Among the Mad
The Convenience Boy: A Short Story
Nobody's Fool
Edge of Evil
Choose Me
Breaking Point
When the Bough Breaks
Smoke and Mirrors
Web of Evil
Gone Before Christmas: A Charles Lenox Mystery
The Scam
A Grave Robbery
Void Moon
Away in a Manger
The Shattered Tree
A Noël Killing
A Noble Radiance
Raven Black
The House at Riverton
The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Thin Air
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2024
The Maharani's Pearls: A Bess Crawford Story
The Red Door
Hide
The Chocolate War
The Mysterious North
Ode To A Banker
C Is for Corpse
The Girl Who Died
Twisted Prey
Evan Only Knows
The Big Kahuna
Hard Truth
A Question of Death
Back to the Garden
All the Colors of the Dark
John Doe: A Rizzoli & Isles Short Story
Eye of the Wolf
The Lighthouse
A Treacherous Curse
A Refiner’s Fire
Cave of Bones
The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie: A Satirical Novella
A Birthday Lunch
Death of a Policeman
The Doomsday Decree
Gone Missing
Surfacing
Neon Prey
A Divided Loyalty
The Healers
Common Murder
The Body in the Castle Well
Badlands
Big Sky
Nemesis: A Harry Hole Novel
Many Rivers to Cross
After That Night: A Will Trent Thriller
The Twelve Clues of Christmas
Dissolution

“In tiny Denmark the system was so ingenious that if you knew some dirt about somebody, they also knew something just as bad about you. If it wasn’t hushed up, the one person’s offense quickly infected the other’s. A strange, practical principle that meant that no one would say anything about anyone else, not even if they were caught with their hands in the biscuit tin.”

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Justine Brown
“Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q books are wonderfully intricate mysteries with great, complex characters who are funny, flawed, and unpredictable. I also thoroughly enjoy the deeper exploration of the effects of crime on people that is explored in each book. It’s thought-provoking and provides an extra layer of depth to the writing.”