See More From Book Club Friends

Sign up and log in to post, comment and join the conversation.

Book Club Friends is 100% Canadian 🇨🇦

Jussi Adler-Olsen
The Absent One
Book #2 of the Department Q series
See the list of Department Q books in order

The Absent One

Copenhagen’s Detective Carl Mørck is back and ready for action in the second Department Q novel from the “new ‘it’ boy of Nordic Noir” (The Times, London).

Carl Mørck has settled into Department Q and is ready to take on another cold case. This time, it’s the brutal double-murder of a brother and sister two decades earlier. One of the suspects confessed and is serving time, but it’s clear to Mørck that all is not what it seems. Kimmie, a homeless woman with secrets involving certain powerful individuals, could hold the key—if Mørck can track her down before they do…

Author: Jussi Adler-Olsen
Published: 2012
Page Count: 412

This page may include affiliate links.

Purchase on:

Amazon
Amazon

Book Club Discussion Questions For The Absent One

The Absent One
Discuss The Absent One With Your Book Club Friends

Do you want to take a deeper dive intoThe Absent One? Chat about themes, characters, settings, plots and let’s celebrate this book for our Book of the Month discussion!

Suggest The Absent One

More Book Club Discussions

A Better Man
A Fatal Grace
A Great Reckoning
A Rule Against Murder
A Trick of the Light
A World of Curiosities
All the Devils Are Here
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Beautiful Ugly
Bury Your Dead
Glass Houses
How the Light Gets In
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
Iron Lake (20th Anniversary Edition)
Kingdom of the Blind
On Tyranny
State of Terror
Still Life
The Beautiful Mystery
The Boyfriend
The Briar Club
The Brutal Telling
The Crash
The Cruelest Month
The Frozen River
The Grey Wolf
The Housemaid
The Life We Bury
The Long Way Home
The Madness of Crowds
The Mighty Red
The Nature of the Beast
The River We Remember
The Rose Code
The Searcher
The Thursday Murder Club
See All Discussions

Highly Recommended Books by Jussi Adler-Olsen Book Club Friends

Remains of Innocence
Death of a Celebrity
A Sight for Sore Eyes
Knife Creek
Another Thing to Fall
About Face
The Good Daughter: A Novel
A Capitol Death
A Christmas Escape: A Novel
The Scorpion's Tail
Arcadia: A Case For Willows And Lane
The Knowledge: A Richard Jury Mystery
The Laughing Buddha: Malachai Samuels vs. D.D. Warren
With No One as Witness
The Devil's Seal
All the Colors of Darkness
A Casualty of War
Resistance
Murphy's Law
In the Moon of Red Ponies
The Laughter of Dead Kings: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
Watchers of Time
Chinese Whispers
Children of the Storm
Death of a Green-Eyed Monster
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Faithless: A Novel
A Dying Light in Corduba
The Raging Storm
The Lost Man
Last Car to Elysian Fields
The Moor
Under the Streets of Nice: The Bank Heist of the Century
Here I Stay
Past Imperfect
A Stranger in Mayfair
The Washington Decree
Final Assignment
The Walnut Tree: A Holiday Tale
The Unlocking Season
The Face in the Mirror
Black Notice
The Shifting Tide: A William Monk Novel
Cast Iron
Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
Sins of the Fathers
Good Bad Girl
The Wrong Side of Goodbye
In Dublin's Fair City
Wait for What Will Come
Alexandria
Agatha Raisin and The Day the Floods Came
Tess Monaghan: A Mysterious Profile
Find You First
The Shadow Murders
Come Death and High Water
Kills Well with Others
Safe Harbour
Mortal Causes
Knave of Diamonds
The English Girl
The Last Mile
Three to Get Deadly
Long Range
Buried Secrets
The Surrogate Mother
Shoot Don't Shoot
Death of a Chimney Sweep
X
Depraved Heart
The Redeemer
A New York Christmas: A Novel
I'd Know You Anywhere
Death of a Master Chef: A Brittany Mystery
The Kizuna Coast
Naughty In Nice
Brain Damage
Coyote Waits
Dear Penthouse Forum
Folly
City of Endless Night
Queen of Hearts
Desert Heat
Sunset Limited
Left for Dead
Death of a Kingfisher
Just a Little Bit Dangerous
The Disappeared
Racing the Devil
The Perfect Suspect
The Rose Arbor
The Ex
Water Like a Stone
Cain His Brother: A William Monk Novel
Long Shadows
Still See You Everywhere
Day of the Dead
The Great Deceiver
The Rembrandt Affair
Cruel Intent
Gone: An Alex Delaware Novel
The Killing Stones
The Lamorna Wink
Look Alive Twenty-Five
Less Than a Treason
Killing Custer
Nasty Girls
Footloose: MatchUp Collection
A Darkness More Than Night
Riviera Gold
Dead Land: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Southampton Row
A Christmas Gathering
Blind Descent
End in Tears
The Grey Wolf
The Burning: A Novel
Gone Missing
The Fly on the Wall
A Christmas Legacy: A Novel
The Theory of Death
The Snake
A Bitter Truth
Missing Joseph
The Shadows in the Street
Wings of Fire
Missing You
The Mercedes Coffin
Corridors of the Night: A William Monk Novel
The Woman in Blue
Postcards From the Mediterranean
Unnatural Exposure
A Matter of Justice
No Safe House
A Twist of Fortune
High Country Fall
Thunderhead
Frozen: A Vera Stanhope Short Story
Lost Light
The Serpent on the Crown
Blacklight Blue
A World of Curiosities
Cassandra
Meet and Greet
Rain Gods
The Brutal Heart
Mary's Christmas
Long Time Gone
Plum Spooky
Night Gate
A Whisper in the Dark
Hide and Seek
Dangerous Waters
Cold Comfort: A Novella
The Travelling Companion
Evil Bones
Silent Partner
Lie Down with Lions
Silken Prey
Suffer the Little Children
The Joy and Light Bus Company
Day of the Dead
The Lighthouse
The Long Ago
Death Song
Look Both Ways
Rebus: Long Shadows
The Twist of a Knife
The Sinister Pig
Breaking the Dark
Dark Fire
Bruno
Never Flinch: A Novel
Breaking Point
Simple Genius
Knock
Extraordinary People
The Missing Corpse: A Brittany Mystery
The Life We Bury
The Accusers
Jolie Blon's Bounce
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax
The Burning
A Song for the Dark Times
Blood Hollow
Reader
Now May You Weep
Keeping Watch
The Cruelest Month
A Death in Cornwall
Necessary as Blood
Electra
Though Not Dead
The September Society
Buckingham Palace Gardens
The Front
Killer: An Alex Delaware Novel
Shamed
Out of Bounds
The Master Falconer
The Zig Zag Girl
For the Love of Mike
The Stone Wife
Three Twisted Stories
Real Tigers
We Three Queens
The Whitechapel Conspiracy
Prom Mom
UR
Lady of the Eternal City
Rebels and Traitors
Bleeding Heart Yard
The Deeds of the Disturber
Twisted: A Novel
Bertie and the Crime of Passion
The Night She Disappeared
A Bitter Feast
Trojan Gold: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
Looking Good Dead
House of Death
Death Row
Crowned and Dangerous
The Last Coyote
Molly Murphy Series: Books 1-15
Scarpetta
Dead Man's Grip
Shooting at Loons
To Dwell in Darkness
Lay Down the Law
Mrs de Winter
Hasty Death
Foul Matter
Nobody Walks
The Punishment She Deserves
Legend in Green Velvet
The Third Girl
The Molly Murphy Series: Books 1-3
The Firemaker
The Skull Beneath the Skin
The Best American Mystery Stories 2014
Devil's Delight: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
The Fallen
Partner in Crime
The Kate Martinelli Series: Books 1-3
Agatha Raisin and The Terrible Tourist
Straight into Darkness
Honor Bar
The Lewis Man
Cold Vengeance
The Dirty Duck
Time of Fog and Fire
Wings of the Falcon
Overboard: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday
Messenger: A Walt Longmire Story
Asta's Book
The Spiteful Shadow
Resurrection Men
An Island of Suspects: A Brittany Mystery
A Fountain Filled With Blood
Bad Move
Death of Yesterday
A Lonely Death
The Investigator
A Private Cathedral
The 6:20 Man
Not Dead Enough
Midnight at Marble Arch
Dead Simple
A Cool Head
Whistleblower
Elevation
In Sunshine or in Shadow
Revenge of the Stormbringer
On Eden Street: A Kings Lake Investigation
Sunstroke: A Thriller
Cleaning the Gold: A Jack Reacher and Will Trent Short Story
The Vanishing Man
Birds of Prey
Honor & . . .(MatchUp Collection)
Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death
The Perfect Son
The Dollhouse
A Spoonful of Poison
Girl Missing
The Healers
Dead Souls
Masked Ball at Broxley Manor
Gravity
I Follow You
Ruth's First Christmas Tree
I Know a Secret: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Trial by Fury
The Guy Who Died Twice
Suffer Little Children
The Wizard's Daughter
The Woman in Cabin 10
Death at the Sanatorium
Death of a Smuggler
A Prayer for the Damned