{"id":3486,"date":"2011-08-23T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3486"},"modified":"2011-08-24T23:33:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T03:33:34","slug":"the-keeper-of-lost-causes-by-jussi-adler-olsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=3486","title":{"rendered":"The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title: <\/strong>The Keeper of Lost Causes<\/em>
\nAuthor: <\/strong>Jussi Adler-Olsen
\nPublisher:\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Penguin Group<\/a>
\nSource: <\/strong>NetGalley<\/a>
\n\"TheChief Detective Carl M\u00c3\u00b8rck survives a shooting while the two officers with him\u00c2\u00a0didn’t fare as well. One was killed and the other was sent to the hospital to recover. M\u00c3\u00b8rck has guilt over how he behaved during the incident. He begins arriving late to work and expects to be fired. Instead, he’s given a promotion\u00c2\u00a0to head up\u00c2\u00a0the newly created Department Q. Department Q is where the lost causes find a home. He’s given several cold cases to work on. When he realizes how much money was budgeted for the special department he insists he needs a department car and a driver who can serve as an assistant. He’s smart and knows his boss placed him out of sight in the basement with the expectation he can be fired at a later date for nonperformance.<\/p>\n

I loved the multiple meanings of the title. First M\u00c3\u00b8rck is shoved\u00c2\u00a0out of sight into the basement and\u00c2\u00a0is given cold cases no one believes can be solved. Then he’s given a Muslim immigrant who smells up the basement with his cooking and doesn’t fit in with anyone else’s idea of an assistant. Lastly, the case he decides to solve is about a missing politician. The only potential witness to the politician’s disappearance is a mute, mentally challenged sibling who no one thinks can communicate.<\/p>\n

In the beginning, Adler-Olsen alternates between the present day and the days leading up to the politician’s disappearance. At one point I was so caught up in the storytelling I forgot to look for how their paths would cross. There’s an official book trailer for The Keeper of Lost Causes<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0which gives a lot of clues about the politcian’s storyline.<\/p>\n

If\u00c2\u00a0you’re a regular\u00c2\u00a0blog reader, you’ll know\u00c2\u00a0I have a fondness for\u00c2\u00a0Nordic thrillers. The Keeper of Lost Causes<\/em> did not disappoint.<\/p>\n

About Jussi Adler-Olsen<\/span><\/p>\n

Jussi Adler-Olsen was born in Copenhagen and studied medicine, sociology, politics and film. He worked as a magazine editor and publisher before starting to write fiction. So far he has written three Department Q thrillers, which all hit the Danish bestseller lists on publication and stayed there ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Title: The Keeper of Lost Causes Author: Jussi Adler-Olsen Publisher:\u00c2\u00a0Penguin Group Source: NetGalley Chief Detective Carl M\u00c3\u00b8rck survives a shooting while the two officers with him\u00c2\u00a0didn’t fare as well. One was killed and the other was sent to the hospital to recover. M\u00c3\u00b8rck has guilt over how he behaved during the incident. He begins arriving… Continue reading The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[473,472],"class_list":["post-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-jussi-adler-olsen","tag-the-keeper-of-lost-causes","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3512,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}