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Feb 14, 2018ApollosRaven rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Department Q, bk. 7. Readers new to the series really need to start with "The Keeper of Lost Causes" and cover two or three of the earlier books before picking up this one. I liked it, but it's very fast paced and many of the ongoing characters show up briefly with little or no background info. The exception is Dept Q staffer, Rose Knudson. We find out more about her past, and she is a central character here. Adler-Olsen's dark sense-of-humor is at play in this book. If Rose is the principal victim, women without a sense of morality are the chief baddies. They include a pair of welfare queens who plot an armed robbery; a social worker who comes to hate her clients so much that she turns homicidal; and a young woman who picks up where her Nazi grandfather left off.