Paperback: Two young brothers wake tied up and gagged in a boathouse by the sea.
Their bonds are inescapable.
But, just perhaps, there is a way to cry for help...
Years later, in Copenhagen's cold cases division, Detective Inspector Carl Mørck receives a bottle.
It holds an old and decayed message, scratched in blood, from two boys.
Is it real?
Who are they and why weren't they reported missing?
Can they possibly still be alive?
Though the investigation initially appears hopeless, soon Carl and his team find themselves on the trail of not just these missing children but others.
Boys and girls taken, never to be seen again.
And a cold-hearted killer unable to stop...
About the author: Jussi Adler-Olsen was born in Copenhagen and worked as a magazine editor and publisher before starting to write. Redemption (2013) is the third novel in the Department Q series, following on from Disgrace (2012) and Mercy (2011). Jussi Adler-Olsen holds the prestigious Glass Key Award, given annually for a crime novel by a Scandinavian author, and is also winner of the Golden Laurels, Denmark's highest literary accolade.
The next books in the Carl Mørck novel series are The Purity of Vengeance (2013) and The Marco Effect (2014). Redemption has been translated from the Danish into the English by Martin Aitken.
About the translator: Martin Aitken holds a PhD in Linguistics and gave up university tenure in 2008 to translate literature. Since then he has translated a score of books into English and Danish, his work also having appeared in countless literary journals. His translation of Janne Teller’s Nothing (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum and Strident Publishing) was doubly honoured in the United States in 2011, receiving both a Printz Honor and a Batchelder Honor, the most prestigious awards for young adult fiction in that country.
In 2012 he was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Nadia Christensen Translation Prize. His translation of Pia Juul's The Murder of Halland (Peirene Press) was longlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 and for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014.
Recent translations are The Elephant Keepers' Children by Peter Høeg (Harvill & Secker/Other Press), likewise longlisted for the IMPAC award in 2014, and Dorthe Nors' Karate Chop (Graywolf Press/A Public Space), a collection of stories that has quickly garnered attention in the US. He has also recently translated three crime thrillers by Nordic noir phenomenon Jussi Adler-Olsen for Penguin (Dutton in the US).
Forthcoming work includes novels by Helle Helle (to be published in November 2014 by Harvill Secker) and Kim Leine (2015 by Atlantic Books). Martin Aitken lives in rural Denmark.
Rating: 5/5
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