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Jussi Adler-Olsen

Born 1950 · Denmark

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Gyldne Laurbær 2011 · Winner

    The Purity of Vengeance

    Journal 64

    Jussi Adler-Olsen · 60 when first published

    Novel · 500 pages · Crime · Afdeling Q, book 4

    AI-generated summary:Copenhagen detective Carl Mørck reopens the 1980s disappearance of a brothel owner and finds that several other people vanished the same weekend, a trail that leads back to a woman abused in her youth and a surgeon with dark convictions.