Disgrace by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Synopsis :

Detective Carl Mørck is 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, and one of the suspects—part of a group of privileged boarding-school students—confessed and was convicted. But once Mørck reopens the files, it becomes clear that all is not what it seems. 

Looking into the supposedly solved case leads him to Kimmie, a woman living on the streets, stealing to survive. Kimmie has mastered evading the police, but now they aren’t the only ones looking for her. Because Kimmie has secrets that certain influential individuals would kill to keep buried . . . as well as one of her own that could turn everything on its head. 


This is what I say :

It seems that there is another title for this book - The Absent One but the one I have is entitled disgrace.  Again, these are among the European crime authors that I have with me and I and selectively going through them one by one.  While my favourite was Camillia Lackberg that I read a lot of last year, this author, Jussi Adler-Olsen is not too bad.

I didn't quite like Detective Carl Morck but as it was stated that that he's 'deeply flawed' so I guess i wasn't expected to like him much anyway.  It took me quite a while to understand where the story is going but the difference that I noticed about this author is that the readers were told right from the start who the perpetrator is or are so there's noting much of a surprise there.  I also notice this from the second book by this author that I reading right now so I have a feeling that this is his writing method and the attraction to readers would be how he brings everything together.  Let's see if it's the same for book two of such is still a 'read-in-progress'.