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# The Purity of Vengeance: A Department Q Novel Paperback – July 29, 2014

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wow!
*by A***D on May 1, 2025*

In this installment, Department Q is juggling more than just a missing persons investigation. There’s Carl’s cousin’s slander, Bak’s sister’s brutal attack, a new body tied to the nail gun case, the dark history of the Purity Party, and the horrific sterilizations of women on Sprogø—more than enough to keep Carl, Assad, and Rose buried in work in their dingy basement office. Meanwhile, Carl’s personal life is in flux: Vigga is asking for a divorce, Mona gives him a key to her place, and things at home are shifting too. Morten brings a boyfriend to home, Hardy begins regaining feeling in parts of his body, and Jesper is just trying to scrape by. A gripping story that keeps you hooked until the very end.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ strangely mysterious
*by G***N on May 14, 2025*

Carl and Assad are two very different people with the same goal. That goal is to bring justice to those that have been forgotten over time. The story portrayed in this mystery is dark, but light is found in the end. A wonderful read with a precarious ending. I enjoy every word.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tea for Two with a Twist
*by M***7 on January 18, 2014*

Department Q is a supposed part of a Danish Police Force designed to give the main character Carl Mork a place to go after he is traumatized in a shoot-out which kills one partner, seriously wounds another, and also injures himl. He is content to be "kicked downstairs," hoping not to work too hard on unsolved cases. But his two assistant Rose and Assad have other plans. Pretty soon the three are involved in searching for a Danish politician who disappeared five years earlier. It is both dark and funny, especially as Assad, who was born in Syria tries to master Danish. Each book thereafter involves an unsolved crime, and increasingly interesting relationships between Carl, Rose, and Assad. In the first three books readers get to see a little of Denmark, a country I think of as my second home. In this book Adler-Olsen focuses on the history--and the underbelly--of Danish politics.The Purity of Vengeance begins with Rose unearthing a connection between several people who went missing on the same day in 1987. What they have in common, though Dept Q doesn't know it yet, is a connection to Sprogo, a small island to which women of uncertain character or intelligence were sent from the mid 1930s to 1961. In doing so Adler-Olsen addresses a little known yet very painful part of Danish history and the eugenics movement that swept through both Europe and the United States in the 30s.Moving back and forth in time from the late 30s, to the mid 80s, to 2010 the novel reveals the tragic story of Nete Hermansen who was wrongly sent to Sprogo, and ultimately sterilized at the hands of Dr. Curt Wad. Now in 2010 Wad has set his sights on making his ultra right wing "Purity Party" legitimate with the right to have candidates for Parliament on the ballot. But when Dept Q's research into the past discover Wad's secretive and evil acts Wad sets his sights on destroying Dept Q, At the same time Carl and company are learning what happened to young women on Sprogo and how Wad was involved and how Nete herself sought vengeance.Of Adler's four novels published thus far in English The Purity of Vengeance has the most compelling story line because it is based in fact. At the story's end the mystery of what happened to those who went missing is solved but there are more than enough loose ends, and emotional triggers, for Adler-Olsen to continue with yet another novel about Department Q.My only criticism of the book is with the translation. As Adler-Olsen reveals Carl's thinking on everything from the case, to his lazy step-son, to his confusion over Rose's behavior Carl's thoughts seem to come straight from a London gutter. This really distracted me because I thought it over-done to the point of altering the characterization of Mork Adler-Olsen developed in the first three novels. In spite of this distraction I gave the book 5 stars because it is such a good read.

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