Jussi Adler-Olsen has 19 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 277 ratings. The most-rated is The Scarred Woman.
The Scarred Woman
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The New York Times and number-one internationally best-selling author of The Keeper of Lost Causes delivers his most captivating and suspenseful Department Q novel yet - perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson. Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division, meets his toughest challenge yet when the dark, troubled past of one of his own team members collides with a sinister unsolved murder. In a Copenhagen park the body of an elderly woman is discovered. The case bears a striking resemblance to another unsolved homicide investigation from over a decade ago, but the connection between the two victims confounds the police. Across town a group of young women are being hunted. The attacks seem random, but could these brutal acts of violence be related? Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q is charged with solving the mystery. Back at headquarters, Carl and his team are under pressure to deliver results: failure to meet his superiors' expectations will mean the end of Department Q. Solving the case, however, is not their only concern. After an earlier breakdown, their colleague Rose is still struggling to deal with the reemergence of her past - a past in which a terrible crime may have been committed. It is up to Carl, Assad, and Gordon to uncover the dark and violent truth at the heart of Rose's childhood before it is too late.
©2017 Jussi Adler-Olsen (P)2017 Penguin Audio
Victim 2117
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In the heart-pounding next installment of the New York Times and number one internationally best-selling Department Q series, a terrifying international investigation reveals the complex backstory of one of the department's own - the enigmatic Assad. The newspaper refers to the body only as Victim 2117 - the 2117th refugee to die in the Mediterranean Sea. But to three people, the unnamed victim is so much more, and the death sets off a chain of events that throws Department Q, Copenhagen’s cold cases division led by Detective Carl Mørck, into a deeply dangerous - and deeply personal - case. A case that not only reveals dark secrets about the past, but has deadly implications for the future. For troubled Danish teen Alexander, whose identity is hidden behind his computer screen, the death of Victim 2117 becomes a symbol of everything he resents and the perfect excuse to unleash his murderous impulses in real life. For Ghaalib, one of the most brutal tormentors from Abu Ghraib - Saddam Hussein’s infamous prison - the death of Victim 2117 is the first step in a terrorist plot years in the making. And for Department Q’s Assad, Victim 2117 is a link to his buried past - and the family he assumed was long dead. With the help of the Department Q squad - Carl, Rose, and Gordon - Assad must finally confront painful memories from his years in the Middle East in order to find and capture Ghaalib. But with the clock ticking down to Alexander’s first kill and Ghaalib's devastating attack, the thinly spread Department Q will need to stay one step ahead of their most lethal adversary yet if they are to prevent the loss of thousands of innocent lives.
©2020 Jussi Adler-Olsen (P)2020 Penguin Audio
The Keeper of Lost Causes
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Jussi Adler-Olsen is Denmark's premier crime writer. His books routinely top the best-seller lists in northern Europe, and he's won just about every Nordic crime-writing award, including the prestigious Glass Key Award - also won by Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, and Jo Nesbo. Now, we're thrilled to introduce him to America. The Keeper of Lost Causes, the first installment of Adler- Olsen's Department Q series, features the deeply flawed chief detective Carl MØrck, who used to be a good homicide detective-one of Copenhagen's best. Then a bullet almost took his life. Two of his colleagues weren't so lucky, and Carl, who didn't draw his weapon, blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing Carl expects. But it all becomes clear when he sees his new office in the basement. Carl's been selected to run Department Q, a new special investigations division that turns out to be a department of one. With a stack of Copenhagen's coldest cases to keep him company, Carl's been put out to pasture. So he's as surprised as anyone when a case actually captures his interest. A missing politician vanished without a trace five years earlier. The world assumes she's dead. His colleagues snicker about the time he's wasting. But Carl may have the last laugh, and redeem himself in the process. Because she isn't dead....yet.
©2011 Jussi Adler-Olsen (P)2011 Penguin
The Purity of Vengeance
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International superstar Jussi Adler-Olsen, with more than fourteen million copies of his books sold worldwide, returns with the fourth book in his New York Times best-selling Department Q series, about a perplexing cold case with sinister modern-day consequences. In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her in her youth, including Curt Wad, a charismatic surgeon who was part of a movement to sterilize wayward girls in 1950s Denmark. More than twenty years later, Detective Carl Mørck already has plenty on his mind when he is presented with the case of a brothel owner, a woman named Rita, who went missing in the eighties: New evidence has emerged in the case that destroyed the lives of his two partners - the case that sent Carl to Department Q. But when Carl's assistants, Assad and Rose, learn that numerous other people disappeared around the same weekend as Rita, Carl takes notice. As they sift through the disappearances, they get closer and closer to Curt Wad, who is more determined than ever to see the vision of his youth take hold and whose brutal treatment of Nete and others like her is only one small part of his capacity for evil. With The Purity of Vengeance, Jussi Adler-Olsen delivers a thrilling and shocking addition to his best-selling Department Q series.
©2013 Jussi Adler-Olsen (P)2013 Penguin Audio
The Hanging Girl
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New York Times and internationally best-selling author Jussi Adler-Olsen returns with the sixth book in his exhilarating Department Q series, featuring Detective Carl Mørck and his enigmatic assistants, Assad and Rose. In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive when he realizes that a new case is being foisted on him, but a few hours later he receives some shocking news that leaves his headstrong assistant, Rose, more furious than usual. Carl has no choice but to lead Department Q into the tragic cold case of a vivacious 17-year-old girl who vanished from school, only to be found dead hanging high up in a tree. The investigation will take them from the remote island of Bornholm to a strange sun-worshipping cult, where Carl, Assad, Rose, and newcomer Gordon attempt to stop a string of new murders and a skilled manipulator who refuses to let anything - or anyone - get in the way.
©2015 Jussi Adler-Olsen (P)2015 Penguin Audio
The Absent One
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In The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adler-Olsen introduced Detective Carl Mørck, 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. Every bit as pulse-pounding as the book that launched the series, The Absent One delivers further proof that Jussi Adler-Olsen is one of the world's premier thriller writers.
©2012 Jussi Adler-Olsen (P)2012 Penguin Audio
The Marco Effect
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All fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson wants is to become a Danish citizen and go to school like a normal teenager. But his uncle Zola rules his former gypsy clan with an iron fist. Revered as a god and feared as a devil, Zola forces the children of the clan to beg and steal for his personal gain. When Marco discovers a dead body - proving the true extent of Zola's criminal activities - he goes on the run. But his family members aren't the only ones who'll go to any lengths to keep Marco silent - forever. Meanwhile, the last thing Detective Carl Mørck needs is for his assistants, Assad and Rose, to pick up a missing persons case on a whim: Carl's nemesis is his new boss, and he's saddled Department Q with an unwelcome addition. But when they learn that a mysterious teen named Marco may have as much insight into the case as he has fear of the police, Carl is determined to solve the mystery and save the boy. Carl's actions propel the trio into a case that extends from Denmark to Africa, from embezzlers to child soldiers, from seemingly petty crime rings to the very darkest of cover-ups. Please note: This book has also been published under the alternate title Buried.
©2014 Jussi Adler-Olsen (P)2014 Penguin Audio
Profanation
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Miséricorde, le premier roman de Jussi Adler-Olsen, s'est imposé comme la découverte scandinave de 2011. Profanation, le deuxième tome de la série, ne décevra pas les fans du tandem atypique formé par l'inspecteur Mørck et son assistant syrien, Assad. Sur le bureau de Mørck, le dossier d'un double meurtre impliquant une bande de fils de famille, innocentée par les aveux "spontanés" de l'assassin. Très vite, l'inspecteur s'aperçoit que l'enquête a été bâclée. Quel rôle ont vraiment joué, il y a vingt ans, trois des hommes les plus puissants du pays ? Opacité des milieux d'affaires, corruption, secrets nauséabonds de la grande bourgeoisie... Jussi Adler-Olsen mêle à la perfection suspense et regard acerbe sur son pays. Julien Chatelet restitue avec un sens rare des nuances ce mélange de suspense tendu et de mélancolie désabusée qui fait la séduction si particulière des polars scandinaves.
©2008 / 2012 Édition originale parue sous le titre : FASANDRÆBERNE chez Politikens Forlag, Copenhague - Jussi Adler-Olsen - JP/Politikens Forlagshus København / Éditions Albin Michel pour la traduction française (P)2014 Audiolib
A Conspiracy of Faith
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The New York Times and internationally best-selling Danish crime writer Jussi Adler-Olsen returns with the third thriller in his exhilarating Department Q series. Detective Carl Mørck has received a bottle that holds an old and decayed message written in blood. It's a cry for help from two young brothers, tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. After floating in the ocean for years before turning up, the bottle sat forgotten, unopened, on a police department windowsill, before the seal was cracked and the gruesome message, written in Danish, was analyzed. Could it be real? Who are these boys, and why weren't they reported missing? Could they possibly still be alive? Carl's investigation will force him to cross paths with a woman stuck in a desperate marriage: Her husband refuses to tell her where he goes, how long he will be away, what he does while he's gone - or even what he does for a living. Isolated after choosing him over family and friends, she waits for days on end, and when he returns she must endure his wants, his moods, his threats. But enough is enough. She will find out the truth, no matter the cost to him - or to herself. In this heart-pounding thriller, Carl and his colleagues Assad and Rose must use every resource available to uncover the horrifying truth set adrift in that bottle all those years ago.
©2012 Jussi Adler-Olsen (P)2013 Penguin Audio
Selfies
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Nouveau défi pour le Département V de la police de Copenhague, en charge des affaires non résolues : un "serial" chauffard dont les victimes sont des femmes jeunes, jolies et... pauvres. Elles touchent les aides sociales et ne rêvent que d'une chose : devenir des stars de reality-show. Sans imaginer un instant qu'elles sont la cible d'une personne gravement déséquilibrée dont le but est de les éliminer une par une. L'inimitable trio formé par le cynique inspecteur Carl Mørck et ses fidèles assistants Assad et Rose doivent réagir vite s'ils ne veulent pas voir le Département V, accusé de ne pas être assez rentable, mettre la clé sous la porte. Mais Rose, plus que jamais indispensable, sombre dans la folie, assaillie par les fantômes de son passé... Avec plus de 16 millions d'exemplaires vendus dans le monde, Jussi Adler-Olsen, grand prix policier des lectrices d'Elle et prix polar des lecteurs du Livre de poche, est une star sur la scène du thriller.
©2014 / 2016 / 2017 Jussi Adler-Olsen / JP / Politikens Forlagshus A/S, Copenhague / Éditions Albin Michel pour la traduction française (P)2018 Audiolib
Victime 2117
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Le journal en parle comme de la "victime 2117" : une réfugiée qui, comme les deux mille cent seize autres qui l'ont précédée cette année, a péri en Méditerranée dans sa tentative désespérée de rejoindre l'Europe. Mais pour Assad, qui œuvre dans l'ombre du Département V de Copenhague depuis dix ans, cette mort est loin d'être anonyme. Elle le relie à son passé et fait resurgir de douloureux souvenirs. Il est temps pour lui d'en finir avec les secrets et de révéler à Carl Mørck et à son équipe d'où il vient et qui il est. Au risque d'entraîner le Département V dans l'œil du cyclone. Qui est Assad ? Victime 2117 est la réponse. Cette enquête est son histoire.
©2020 Jussi Adler-Olsen, JP / Politikens Hus AS / Éditions Albin Michel (P)2020 Audiolib
Dossier 64
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À l'origine d'un véritable phénomène d'addiction chez les lecteurs, les enquêtes du Département V ont fait de Jussi Adler-Olsen, Grand Prix policier des lectrices de Elle et Prix polar des lecteurs du Livre de poche, une figure incontournable du thriller scandinave. La nouvelle enquête du trio formé par l'inspecteur Mørck et ses assistants Assad et Rose fait monter la tension d'un cran en nous plongeant dans le sombre passé politique du Danemark. Copenhague. Une brutale agression dans les quartiers chauds de Vesterbro incite Rose à rouvrir un cold case sur la disparition inexpliquée d'une prostituée. Cédant à ses pressions, le Département V exhume une affaire macabre datant des années 50, dont les ravages dévoilent le visage d'une société danoise loin d'être exemplaire... À l'occasion d'une enquête du fameux Département V, la plongée angoissante dans une des pages méconnues et les plus sombres de l'histoire du Danemark.
©2010 / 2014 Politikens Forlag, J. Adler-Olsen, JP / Politikens Forlagshus København / Éditions Albin Michel (P)2015 Audiolib
The Alphabet House
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In the tradition of Alan Furst, the number one international best-selling author delivers his first stand-alone novel, a psychological thriller set in World War II Nazi Germany and 1970s England. British pilots James Teasdale and Bryan Young have been chosen to conduct a special photo-reconnaissance mission near Dresden, Germany. Intelligence believes the Nazis are building new factories that could turn the tide of the war. When their plane is shot down, James and Bryan know they will be executed if captured. With an enemy patrol in pursuit, they manage to jump aboard a train reserved for senior SS soldiers wounded on the eastern front. In a moment of desperation, they throw two patients off the train and take their places, hoping they can escape later. But their act is too convincing and they end up in the Alphabet House, a mental hospital located far behind enemy lines, where German doctors subject their patients to daily rounds of shock treatments and experimental drugs. The pilots' only hope of survival is to fake insanity until the war ends, but their friendship and courage are put to the ultimate test when James and Bryan realize they aren't the only ones in the Alphabet House feigning madness. Millions of fans around the world - and in this country - know Adler-Olsen for his award-winning Department Q series. His first stand-alone, The Alphabet House, is the perfect introduction for those who have yet to discover his riveting work.
©2015 Jussi Adler-Olsen (P)2014 Penguin Audio
L'effet papillon
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Si William Stark n'avait pas été intrigué par un SMS envoyé du Cameroun, René Ericksen, son boss au Bureau d'Aide au Développement, n'aurait pas été obligé de se débarrasser de lui. Si Marco, un jeune voleur gitan n'avait pas trouvé refuge là où le cadavre putréfié de Stark végète depuis trois ans, son oncle, chef d'un réseau mafieux, n'aurait pas lancé ses hommes à ses trousses à travers tout Copenhague pour l'empêcher de révéler à la police l'existence de ce corps qu'il a enterré de ses propres mains... Pour stopper cet engrenage de la violence, l'inspecteur Carl Mørck et l'équipe du Département V doivent retrouver Marco. Et remonter la piste d'une affaire dont les ramifications politiques et financières pourraient bien faire vaciller l'intégrité politique du Danemark.
©2016 Audiolib; 2010 / 2012 / 2015 Jussi Adler-Olsen / Politikens Forlag, Copenhague / JP/Politikens / Pour la version française Albin Michel. Traduction par Caroline Berg
Promesse
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Bornholm, une île danoise de la mer baltique, fin des années 1990. Le cadavre d'une jeune fille est retrouvé dans un arbre, son vélo broyé au bord de la route. Aucune trace du chauffard : affaire classée. Sauf pour un inspecteur de la police locale qui finit dix-sept ans plus tard par demander l'aide de l'inspecteur Carl Mørck. Avant de se tirer une balle dans la tête. À l'initiative de Rose, l'assistante du flegmatique Mørck, l'insolite trio du Département V en charge des cold cases débarque sur l'île de Bornholm. En remuant le passé, ils prennent le risque de réveiller de vieux démons... Une nouvelle intrigante enquête du fameux trio du Département V, une plongée vertigineuse dans le monde des sectes. Un roman noir, brillant, à l'humour décapant. Plus de 13 millions d'exemplaires vendus dans le monde, couronné par tous les grands prix du polar, dont le Grand Prix policier des lectrices de Elle, le Danois Jussi Adler Olsen est une figure incontournable du thriller scandinave.
©2014 / 2016 Jussi Adler-Olsen / Éditions Albin Michel (P)2017 Audiolib
The Washington Decree
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The New York Times and number one internationally best-selling author of the Department Q series is back, with a terrifyingly relevant stand-alone novel about an America in chaos. "The president has gone way too far.... These are practically dictatorial methods we're talking about." Sixteen years before democratic Senator Bruce Jansen was elected president of the United States, a PR stunt brought together five very different people: 14-year-old Dorothy "Doggie" Rogers, small-town sheriff T. Perkins, single mother Rosalie Lee, well-known journalist John Bugatti, and the teenage son of one of Jansen's employees, Wesley Barefoot. In spite of their differences, the five remain bonded by their shared experience and devotion to their candidate. For Doggie, who worked the campaign trail with Wesley, Jansen's election is a personal victory: a job in the White House, proof to her Republican father that she was right to support Jansen, and the rise of an intelligent, clear-headed leader with her same ideals. But the triumph is short-lived: Jansen's pregnant wife is assassinated on election night, and the alleged mastermind behind the shooting is none other than Doggie's own father. When Jansen ascends to the White House, he is a changed man, determined to end gun violence by any means necessary. Rights are taken away as quickly as weapons. International travel becomes impossible. Checkpoints and roadblocks destroy infrastructure. The media is censored. Militias declare civil war on the government. The country is in chaos, and Jansen's former friends each find themselves fighting a very different battle, for themselves, their rights, their country... and, in Doggie's case, the life of her father, who just may be innocent.
©2018 Jussi Adler-Olsen (P)2018 Penguin Audio
Selfies
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Vizepolizeikommissar Carl Mørck wird zur Aufklärung eines brutalen Todesfalls von der Mordkommission in Kopenhagen hinzugezogen. Wie sich herausstellt, gibt es eine Verbindung zu einem mehrere Jahre zurückliegenden und ausgesprochen brisanten cold case. Ausgerechnet jetzt geht es Carls Assistentin Rose sehr schlecht. Sie wird von grauenhaften Erinnerungen aus ihrer Vergangenheit heimgesucht. Sie kämpft mit aller Macht dagegen an - und gegen das Dunkel, in dem sie zu ertrinken droht. Und welche Rolle spielen die jungen Frauen Michelle, Jasmin und Denise, die sich zu einem starken und hochexplosiven Kleeblatt verbündet haben? Der neue Thriller von Jussi Adler-Olsen verspricht atemberaubende Spannung bis zur letzten Minute - ungekürzt gelesen von Wolfram Koch.
©2017 DTV (P)2017 DAV
Verachtung
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Carl Mørck vom Sonderdezernat Q ermittelt in einem neuen Fall: eine Reihe vermisster Personen aus dem Jahr 1987. Die Spur führt ihn zu Nete Hermansen, die als junges Mädchen ihre Mutter verlor und ein entsetzliches Schicksal erlitt. Von ihren Vormündern grausam misshandelt, durch einen fanatischen Arzt zwangssterilisiert, wurde sie schließlich nach Sprogø verbannt, der Insel für ausgestoßene Frauen. Als sie entlassen wird, lernt Nete zu vergessen. Sie heiratet und führt ein glückliches Leben - bis sie Jahre später erneut auf ihre Peiniger trifft und beschließt, grausame Rache zu nehmen. "Verachtung" ("Journal 64", 2010) ist der vierte Fall für Carl Mørck und seinen Assistenten Assad, packend gelesen von Wolfram Koch.
©2012 dtv (P)2012 Der Audio Verlag
Opfer 2117
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Auf Zypern wird eine Tote aus dem Wasser geborgen. Offenbar eine Geflüchtete aus dem Nahen Osten. Auf der sogenannten "Tafel der Schande" in Barcelona, wo die aktuelle Zahl der ertrunkenen Flüchtlinge angezeigt wird, ist sie das "Opfer 2117". Doch die alte Frau ist nicht ertrunken, sondern wurde ermordet. In Kopenhagen spielt der 22-jährige Alexander das Computerspiel "Kill Sublime". Das Foto des "Opfers 2117" hängt direkt vor ihm. Sein Hass auf die Gesellschaft, die gegenüber dem Elend der Welt gleichgültig ist, ist so groß, dass er beschließt, für diese Frau Rache zu nehmen, sobald er in "Kill Sublime" Level 2117 erreicht hat. Können Carl Mørck und Assad ihn rechtzeitig aufhalten?
©2019 dtv. Übersetzung von Hannes Thiess (P)2019 DAV