Last summer, when my blog on The Keeper of Lost Causes posted, I was relaxing on the beach in Dauphin Island. Unfortunately, there was no beach trip this summer but luckily a new Jussi Adler-Olsen was published!! The Absent One is the second book of the Department Q series, and I enjoyed it as much as the first!! I will recommend reading them in order because I don’t think this is a series that you can just jump into the 
middle of, hence my display of the paperback of Keeper on display right next to The Absent One. Oh, did I mention that The Keeper of Lost Causes was my favorite mystery of 2011?
When Carl and Assad return to Department Q, the cold case division, they find that Rose has been assigned to work with them and a file about the murder of two siblings in 1987 is laying on his desk. Both have totally confounded Carl, especially the case, since technically it has been solved, with the confessed murderer sitting in jail. Why and how did this file land on his desk in Department Q? The more Carl reads the file the more he sees things that just don’t add up. During the original investigation, a group of boarding school students where under suspicion but there was not enough evidence to charge anyone. Carl finds it very interesting that nine years later, Thogersen, the scholarship student of the group, confesses his guilt to both murders while Pram, Florin, Jensen, Wolf (deceased) and Lasson (missing), all silver spooners, are off the hook and go on to lead successful lives. Unbeknownst to the higher ups, Carl, Asaad, and Rose start a new investigation and begin to get close to truth. The remaining group of school mates realize that if they don’t find Kimmie Lasson before the folks in Department Q do then their lives will be forever changed. What they don’t know is that Kimmie is aware they are looking for her and has plans of her own.
Y’all, it is going to be a long wait for next summer’s publication of the third book but I know whether I am on the beach or not I will be one happy reader!
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