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[circe-and-the-wolf]

I’m half way through Department Q Book 3 and Carl is pretty into Mona, from the tiny snippets JAO gives away. I need more MG charm in the story so, instead of tidying the kitchen and getting on with work, I tried some more photo faffing using the 📷 above (by Female First website and Philip Sinden) and here’s what I came up with:

‘A candid snap of Carl and Rachel at the messy end of a post-work social (that Carl didn’t want to go to). They’ve tried to sneak off together but got side-tracked in the doorway: Carl pulls her in, playfully, towards him and she can’t resist. The photo, though, is a bad idea as far as Rachel’s concerned. Carl hasn’t even noticed they’re being watched (he’s tired, as usual, and she smells just too good).’

In my mind, this is where the ‘Carl and Rachel dance’ is at, @asgoodeasgold 🖤

I need to work on my photo editing. It’s fun. But I lose focus before my brain is onto the next thing. I’d love to try photoshop but feel fully overwhelmed every time I look at it.

[asgoodeasgold]

‼️BREAKING NEWS 💥NEW LEAD ROLE💥 for Matthew Goode in Netflix crime thriller series ‘Department Q’

It started filming in January. Directed by Scott Frank, the series is based on best-selling ‘Nordic noir’ novels by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen. 

The show centers around "brilliant but difficult" detective Carl Morck, wracked with guilt at a case gone wrong that left his partner paralysed and another policeman dead . He is sidelined into a new Department Q for cold cases but assembles a team of misfits and finds his A game again. The story is transposed to Edinburgh.

Frank Scott said: “Carl Morck is one of those classic detective antiheroes, funny and dark at the same time, that I can never get enough of. I think audiences will feel the same way.” (Herald)

Other cast members include Chloe Pirrie, Alexej Manvelov, Kelly MacDonald, and Leah Byrne.

Scott Frank is the lead creator. He is a sought-after scriptwriter and directed the Queen’s Gambit, Minority Report, Godless and The Lookout (with Matthew as Gary Spargo).

He will lead the team of writers including Chandni Lakhani (Black Mirror, Vigil), Stephen Greenhorn and Colette Kane.

This will be an eight-part series and will be produced by Sony-owned Left Bank Pictures, the company behind The Crown and Outlander.

Rob Bullock, Andy Harries and David Brown will be co-producing the series. (IMDB)

The book series has already been adapted into a film series in Denmark. The action will be transported from Copenhagen to Scotland for this new production.

📷 Photo credits - my edits from

Photo of Scott Frank by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

Photo of Jussi Adler-Olsen from his website

Photos of Matthew Goode by Philip Sinden (for Brummel, Sep 2017) and Uli Webber (for Style Italia, Feb 2017) via matthew-goode.net

Photo of Edinburgh "Jagged walkways" by Andrew B Harris

The Lookout promo still & poster (via matthew-goode.net)

Photos of Scott Frank & Matthew Goode at The Lookout premiere by Alexandra Wyman/WireImage/Miramax Film/Getty

All credits are on the pictures

Read more here ⬇️

More info

[helmstone]

Netflix series Department Q enters production

Netflix series Department Q enters production

New Netflix crime drama Department Q has started filming in Edinburgh, and as I covered in my CultBox piece (Department Q cast announced as Netflix series enters production) we also have news on the cast. This is season 1 of what I assume is planned for more — it’s adapted from a set of novels by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen. The core cast (as shown above) are: (top row) Matthew Goode, Chloe…

[wornoutspines]

The Keeper of Lost Causes / Mercy (Department Q #1) by Jussi Adler-Olsen | Book Review

Dive into the dark, sardonic world of The Keeper of Lost Causes. Carl Mørck’s reluctant dive into cold cases and his dynamic with the enigmatic Assad make for a bleak yet thrilling ride. #BookReview #CrimeFiction #DepartmentQ 📖 Full review here:

The Keeper of Lost Causes / Mercy, the first installment of Jussi Adler-Olsen’s international bestselling Department Q series, features the deeply flawed chief detective Carl Mørck, who used to be a good homicide detective – one of Copenhagen’s best. Then a bullet almost took his life. Two of his colleagues weren’t so lucky, and Carl, who didn’t draw his weapon, blames himself. So a promotion is…

[freshlybrewedbookreviews]

The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1) by Jussi Adler-Olsen

I'm a sucker for Scandi thrillers, and this one delivered. It had one of the most…inventive?…ways of killing anyone that I've ever read, and that's saying a lot after almost 20 years of reading dark thrillers. I liked this enough that I'm hoping to read more in the series.

[dzelonis]

Jussi Adler-Olsen - The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q #1)

Links uz grāmatas Goodreads lapu Izdevniecība: Penguin Manas pārdomas Ne katra slepkavības izmeklēšana rezultējas vainīgā vai vairāku vainīgo iesaistīto notveršanā. Ne katrai izmeklēšanai sākotnēji paveicas gan ar tai piešķirtajiem izmeklētājiem, gan pieejamiem resursiem kā tādiem, ņemot vērā slodzi, kas uzlikta katrai detektīvu komandai un kopējo noziegumu skaitu, kas tā vien šķiet pēdējā…

[miriamvowen]

Netflix to remake Department Q… but with one major change

Department Q has become a firm favourite with BBC Four crime fans, with the Danish-language series of films based on the novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen. Now we’re hearing that Netflix is set to produce its own set of adaptations, featuring  Deputy Police Commissioner Carl Mørck and his colleagues Assad, Rose and Gordon. But there’s one […]Netflix to remake Department Q… but with one major change

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The phrase, "less than cooperative" , was such an understatement that it packed a lot of punch. "The tyranny of the quiet remark", as one of Carl's instructors at the Police Academy like to call it.

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The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen

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Assad: ‘I have done nothing wrong. Ever. In my life.’

Me: ‘I know this, and I love you.’

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⬆️ Photo-collage-fan-faffery / the wanderings of my mind as I read the Department Q books

Windswept scenario - Department Q

Above is another (imaginary) candid snap of ‘The Carl and Rachel dance’. It’s early on in the dance - book 2 ish - at the point when the screenwriters have forced them together on the beach (somehow?!) and there’s such a vibe: he’s definitely interested but she still needs a lot of convincing. It’s a bright day but breezy and stickily, saltily damp; the sea spray is everywhere and the fresh air is electric between them. They’re asked to pose for a photo (who knows why?!) and Carl leaps at the opportunity to put his arm around her. It’s a touch - a contact - that’s not happened before. The warmth of him makes her stomach churn deliciously and she dips her gaze and smiles at the realisation. The camera catches the moment. Then the contact is broken. They look coyly - sideways and both suppressing smirks - at each other before continuing along the beach with the rest of the group.

[Cut to some dark, harrowing kidnap scenes - this is a thriller after all].

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In the books, Adler-Olsen gives only the most tantalising glimpses of ‘The Dance’ between these two. Hence my ramblings 😂 I wonder how the dynamic will pan out in the show. Towards the end of Department Q Book 1 in Carl’s internal monologue, he confesses to being ‘crazy’ about her, despite her wearing a wedding ring (which is later removed). Adler-Olsen leaves us to guess what changes her mind eventually. But if Carl Mørck looks like Matthew Goode it’s not that much of a mystery, is it? 😂🫠

📷 Original pics from @asgoodeasgold (I’m so envious that these are actually your pictures I could cry) and Wikipedia; faffed around with, inexpertly, by me 📷

[asgoodeasgold]

It's Department Q's Christmas drinks

Carl is wearing his best suit because Rachel promised she would come along. And she did, so he is all smiles!

Akram has made some mint tea but Carl is more interested in the Hospice de Beaune 2006 Corton Grand Cru (IYKYK - a virtual prize to those who can say where the reference is from - answer below 😁). It's a bit posh for an office do but Carl is trying to impress Rachel.

The gloomy basement office has been spruced up with Christmas decorations at Rose's insistence (she is taking the photo). Carl complained all day about it but she just ignored him. He refused point blank to wear a Christmas hat though.

Note 1: I have used the forthcoming Netflix Department Q series' characters names rather than those in the books. Mona Ibsen is Rachel Irving and Assad is Akram Salim.

Note 2: The wine I refer to was chosen by Deborah Harkness to represent Matthew de Clermont in her Adow/Wine show mash up podcast.

When Matthew is good, he is very, very good. And when he is bad, he is terrible."

Just like a Burgundy wine. I thought that quote was very appropriate for Carl too 😆

📷 Credits - My edit from:

Matthew Goode: Yaffa Meskell, Freud's Last Session film screening in London, 28 Feb 2024

Kelly MacDonald: Andrew Woffinden/The Observer

Alexej Manvelov - Swedish Press Agency

Office pic: Tom Gambo

Syrian tea tray: Sophie James

[rosekillerismylife]

Fasandræberne by Jussi Adler Olsen

Jesus, I love Olsen. His writing style is just so unique and I don't know. As if the person is based on him. It really seems as if he thought of every little detail on a character. I'm so impressed. Like, the whole backstory and how the villains and assasins became the way they are and how literally everyone is connected to each other is so impressive to think of.

Carl Mørck might be the most hated main character and hero in the whole world. The hilarious thing is that he isn't even hated by the reader (I for one love him) but everyone in the series despises him and he also knows that he's an asshole. That's so amazing because most heroes are hated by the readers but loved by the characters in the book. Mørck is the contrary. Rose Knudsen, for example, hates him very openly because he always orders her around and belittles her. Even his boss, Marcus Jacobsen, hates him and declares him an asshole although Mørck solved many closed cases and is quite incredible.

I think it's just so different from other books, one can only love it.

Olsen also has this unique style of writing. He presents the story from different point of views (in this one the pov of the villain) but does not really reveal anything while doing so.

I just loved it.

For anyone who'd like to read it: It's the second book of a series called Carl Mørck Departement Q. The english title is The Absent One. Oh and TW: violence, murder, rape and violent sex, medical treatments, hunting (humans and animals), diseases, suicidial thoughts, threats, blood.

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I've found a great danish author after the last Camilla Lackberg' book because I love the nordico writing.

Jussi Adler-Olsen has a great saga.

I've found the movies while reading the fourth book.

I've watched all the movies with the first cast and now I'm lost.

Carl and Assad in the movies aren't the same from the books but totally valid and totally🥰

In the books I ship Carl and Rose LOL and Assad is protected by me, don't touch Assad. They're team is my fav thing in the world.

The wat they changed the fourth wasn't bad and Carl desperate for his friend😭😭😭💕 the hospital scene in my heart forever.

I dunno how I will manage the recasting.

#beginning of menstruation hasn't helped

[angelitam]

7 m2 de Jussi Adler Olsen

7 m2 de Jussi Adler Olsen – Editions Albin Michel 7 m2 de Jussi Adler Olsen, présentation En 2005, le trio le plus soudé, le plus complice, Carl, Anker et Hardy sont intervenus contre un tueur. 26 décembre 2020, Eddie, inspecteur de police, doit respecter le contrat, mais il hésite. Carl a été arrêté et emprisonné car une valise avec de la drogue et de l’argent a été retrouvée chez lui. Avis…

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Not me being called out in the tags for not reading enough of my own country's detective lit lol. Genuinely thank you for the recs though! I'll check them out!

The worst part about Alan Wake 2 is that it has left me wanting to read the entire Alex Casey series. It doesn't exist! But I want it!