![]() ![]() The plot in this one is interesting, though it’s not particularly complex. ![]() However, on the whole I found it hard to sympathise with any of them, even when I was being shown the abuses they had had to endure. Although Wad is an obvious baddie, the other characters are more complex the victims are by no means straightforward innocents and the villains might be seen to have had extenuating circumstances. ![]() In fact, here’s one detective who could be forgiven for taking to drink – thankfully he hasn’t though! Despite my reservations about the credibility of their behaviour, Rose and Assad are still enjoyable, and each of their stories is developed a bit more in this outing. And the quirkiness of Rose and Assad begins to jar as their behaviour becomes such that no police department would tolerate from any of its employees.Ĭarl remains a likeable character, still juggling with his complicated personal life as well as his crazy employees. I got very tired very quickly of constant descriptions of dripping noses and diarrhoea. The running gag is that everyone in the team is hit with a virus that leads to cold symptoms and upset stomachs. Unfortunately this didn’t work quite as well for me this time round. He attempts to lighten the seriousness of the plot by introducing humour into the sections relating to Carl and the investigation. He creates a convincing picture of the abuse these young girls suffered at the hands of men and women in positions of authority which allowed them to act with impunity. When Adler-Olsen is writing about the background to the crimes and the crimes themselves, his writing is very strong. And it appears that all the missing people were in some way linked to one of the victims, Nete Hermansen. Curt Wad’s organisation is now a recognised political party, the Purity Party, but was previously a secret organisation known as the Cause – the cause being to ensure the purity of the race by carrying out forced abortions and sterilisations of girls deemed unfit to be mothers. When Rose spots that amongst the old unsolved cases are four that relate to disappearances that all happened at the same time, Carl Mørck and the team begin an investigation that leads them into the murky world of far-right politics and illegal eugenics. ![]()
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