In The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adler-Olsen introduced Detective Carl M?rck, a deeply flawed, brilliant detective newly assigned to run Department Q, the home of Copenhagens coldest cases. The result wasnt what M?rckor readersexpected, but by the opening of Adler-Olsens shocking, fast-paced follow-up, M?rck is satisfied with the notion of picking up long-cold leads. So hes naturally intrigued when a closed case lands on his desk: A brother and sister were brutally murdered two decades earlier, and one of the suspectspart of a group of privileged boarding-school studentsconfessed and was convicted. But once M?rck 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 arent 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.