by Jussi Adler-Olsen
This mystery takes place in Denmark. It was a very interesting but unusual story.
As with many mysteries the main character, the detective, is a flawed character. Carl Morck is trying to recover from an ambush which killed one of his colleagues and made a quadraplegic of his other colleague.
He is hard to get along with, even despite the recent incident. His bosses decide to put him in charge of a one man division investigating cold cases.
He finds out that his department will get a lot more money than his salary for this new division and manages to get an assistant, a Muslim fellow who cleans, does admin. duties and also seems to have some good investigative and deductive skills.
The get a pile of files to review and decide to work on a five year old file about an elected official who disappeared off a ferry boat while enroute for a vacation with her handicapped brother.
While they are reviewing the file and ferreting out additional details that the original investigation failed to uncover, we learn that the women had not committed suicide as it was assumed, but was kidnapped and is being confined in a chamber by persons unknown.
While Carl is working on the case he is also trying to deal with his paralyzed colleague who wants him to kill him to put him out of his misery.
Carl and his Muslim assistant manage to track down the women but she and they are almost killed in the process.
This was a well written mystery and kept you wanting to read to find out what happens. I am looking forward to reading other books in the series.
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