The keeper of lost causes

As literature this book is just fine. As something worth reading, I find it cruel, black, depressing, and unnerving. With the world falling apart as it is these days, there are most certainly better books to spend my time reading.

3.5 Stars, We have good Mystery writers in the USA. but it refreshing to get an alternative location now and then.

A woman is held in captivity; a detective is sidelined with a new job (running Department Q, a cold case squad of one) and a seemingly incompetent assistant from Syria. The assistant turns out to be sharp, the cases not so cold, and the woman quite a hardy specimen. I was disposed to hate the book given its prologue, but by the end I was won over. A Dane proves there is humor in Scandinavian crime fiction.