The Purity of Vengeance

In 1987 Nete Hermansen, who has rebuilt her life with a loving husband, prepares to settle scores with those who wrecked her youth, among them Curt Wad, a magnetic doctor who once belonged to a movement for sterilising girls judged unfit in 1950s Denmark. In 2010 Carl Mørck of the cold-case unit Department Q is handed the file on Rita Nielsen, who ran an escort business and vanished in the 1980s. When his assistants Assad and Rose find that several more people dropped out of sight that same weekend, a pattern kept hidden for two decades starts to point towards Wad, who has never given up the ideas he held as a young man.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

461 pages in the original

Genres

Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Denmark, 1950s–2010

Series

Afdeling Q, book 4

First published

2010 by Politikens Forlag

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9788756795456 (original)

9780525954019 (Dutton, United States)

9781405909785 (Penguin, United Kingdom)

9780142181317 (Dutton, United States)

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