Book review: The Purity of Vengeance, by Jussi Adler-Olsen
It is only fitting that English-language readers should have to play catch-up with Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen's outstanding thrillers featuring detective Carl Morck, who must play catch-up with the culprits of long-forgotten crimes.
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Dutton
5 stars
It is only fitting that English-language readers should have to play catch-up with Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen's outstanding thrillers featuring detective Carl Morck, who must play catch-up with the culprits of long-forgotten crimes.
Adler-Olsen's masterful storytelling keeps the readers waiting, too, as his teasing, multi-layered plots ever so slowly converge while the reckless, yet fearless, Morck struggles to uncover the truth - without losing his life.
We are now up to book four - three years behind the Danish original - with (Dutton's American edition), which is published in Britain by Penguin under the title .
At a black-tie banquet in 1985, a man from Nete Rosen's past confronts her - leading to humiliation, then tragedy, and planting the seed for vengeance.
Fifteen years later, Morck and his Department Q assistants, Assad and Rose, who specialise in cold-case investigations, are dusting off newly delivered old case files when they overhear talk on the police radio about a vicious acid attack on an escort agency owner. It reminds them of the case of Rita Nielsen, a wealthy escort agency owner who had suddenly disappeared in 1987.
