Detective Carl Mørck and
his assistants Assad and Rose work for the Danish Police in Department Q a cold
case unit housed in the basement of police headquarters. The Purity of Vengeance moves back and forth between 1987 and the
story of Nete Hermansen detailing the abuse she suffered at the hands of a
secret organization and 2010 where Mørck is investigating several cases of
missing people who vanished over twenty years ago during the same weekend.
Eventually they discover a link to Nete and the missing people.
I really love
this series but this was not one of my favorites. Maybe Adler-Olsen was trying
to offset the seriousness of the subject matter with his forced and repetitious
attempts at humor (very unlike the previous books in the series) or maybe it
was the downward spiral into schizophrenic like behavior for his assistant Rose
or maybe even it was the subject matter that was based on actual events in
history. But for whatever reason I’ll still be first in line for the next
installment.
