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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…

[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…

[applesins]

crime novel heads will understand and bibble enjoyers of course

[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

[feedergoldfish]

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

[greykolla-art]

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

Me: ‘I know this, and I love you.’

[circe-and-the-wolf]

⬆️ 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]

No edits today, but much better than that - here is Carl Morck in Department Q, a view from the back, and what a beautiful view that is. Those curls, with gorgeous strands of grey, are a sight to behold 🩶🦊. I cannot wait to meet Carl 💝(and his wonderful inner monologues 😆) properly!!! I love this character already upon my reading of the books. Hurry up Netflix!

📷 Photographs kindly shared by David A Calder on FB of Dep Q shoot on Portobello Beach in Edinburgh, 15 April. First one is zoomed in and edited.

[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.

[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…

[hedonistbyheart]

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!

[lammfleisch]

That Soundtrack is so incredible. Everything about Marco Effect is insane.

This is my fav movie from denmark now. Oh my god, it is sooooo good. The new Cast for Carl and the others confused me at the beginning but every Actor did an amazing Job. Production and OST are insane, too.

I'm glad the Marco Effect became the best movie of it's franchise. The book is my fav from Adler Olsen and it deserved to get this movie masterpiece