Bargain @ $1.99 from Penguin's Dutton imprint in Canada & probably also the US (non-couponable, should be matched at all the usual retailers):
The Absent One by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen (
SYKM,
Wikipedia), a translation of
Fasandræberne, 2nd in his Department Q series starring Copenhagen cold case detective Carl Mørck (now adapted into a film series). I quite liked this series when I
binge-read the lot of them last year and IMHO, this is one of the better cases in it. This was published in the UK as
Disgrace.
New York Times bestseller Jussi Adler-Olsen returns with the second book in his electrifying Department Q series.
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.
Also, if you're interested in reading these things in French (the translation of the 7th book comes out this month, whereas English readers will have to wait until September), Kobo Canada appears to be having a 50% off sale on selected thrillers from publisher Albin Michel which include
#1-4 of Adler-Olsen's for just $6.99 (cheap by francophone sale standards).
Unfortunately, the
dedicated promo page they have for it and various others which may be out from spin-off imprints (including Swedish author Anna Jansson's (
SYKM,
Wikipedia)
Le pacte boréal, 1st in her Maria Wern series not yet translated into English, for just $2.99 which is incredibly cheap, considering that the rest are $14.99), is not functional at the moment and hopefully it gets fixed soon.