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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.

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‼️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

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Sezione Q 💛

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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…

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The Weight of Empty Promises

My #QuoteOfTheDay is from Jussi Adler-Olsen and highlights that truth and understanding must be the foundation of every commitment. #Wisdom #TheKeeperOfLostCauses "LifeLesson #BookQuotes

“…promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing.” – Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper Of Lost Causes

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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.

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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…

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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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⬆️ 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 📷

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Reflections Part 1/3

"Carl took a step towards the mirror and ran one finger along his temple where the bullet had grazed his head. The wound had healed, but the scar was clearly visible under his hair, if anyone cared to look. But who the hell would want to do that? he thought as he studied his face. It was obvious now that he had changed. The furrows around his mouth were deeper, the shadows under his eyes were darker, and his expression showed a profound indifference. Carl Mørck was no longer himself, the experienced criminal detective who lived and breathed for his work. No longer the tall, elegant man from Jutland who caused eyebrows to raise and lips to part. And what the hell did it matter anyway?"

This is the opening line of "Mercy", Book 1 of Department Q by Jussi Adler-Olsen. I hope this will also be the first frame of Netflix Department Q series, what a wonderfully cinematic way it would be of meeting Carl!

This has inspired me to look back at Matthew and his reflections.

📷 My edits from Silent Night (2021), Pressure (2015), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Freud's Last Session (2022) and The Crown (2017). Picture of Carl Department Q BTS by Noreen Stewart on FB).

A few close ups:

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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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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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Books in Review 2025: "Erbarmen" / "Keeper of the Lost Causes" by Jussi Adler Ohlsen

(English Translation under the German Review) "Erbarmen" (Englisch: "Keeper of the Lost Causes") ist der erste Band der "Department Q"-Serie des dänischen Autors Jussi Adler-Olsen. Die deutsche Verfilmung des gleichnamigen Buches habe ich vor einigen Jahren gesehen. Jetzt adaptiert Netflix das Buch als achtteilige Serie mit Matthew Goode (als Kommissar Carl Mørck) und Alexej Manvelov (als seinem Assistenten Hafez el-Assad bzw. Akram Salim in der engl. Verfilmung) in den Hauptrollen. Die neue Netflix-Verfilmung spielt jedoch in Edinburgh, Schottland. (Das nimmt der Originalgeschichte wahrscheinlich viel von ihrem dänischen Charme und den entsprechenden dänischen Eigenheiten. Obwohl ich ein Faible für Schottland habe, hätte ich den Originalschauplatz in Dänemark vorgezogen.) Ich habe das Buch als Vorbereitung gelesen, um zu sehen, wie der Stoff in der neuen Verfilmung dargestellt wird, insbesondere die Figur des Carl Mørck. Wenn man das Buch aus dem Kontext eines Kriminalromans herausnimmt, enthält es eine hoffnungsvolle Botschaft, und zwar nicht in erster Linie, weil das Opfer am Ende gerettet wird (wie es ja meistens in solchen Romanen geschieht). Das Buch beschreibt Carl Mørck und Hafez el-Assad als zwei intelligente, fleißige Kriminalkommissare, die von ihren Vorgesetzten aufgrund ihrer "Eigenheiten", d. h. einer Krankheit (Mørck) und der Herkunft (el-Assad), ausgegrenzt werden. Doch die Leidenschaft, mit der die beiden ihre Arbeit machen, und die damit verbundene Hartnäckigkeit führen dazu, dass sie wichtigen Fall lösen, den die Vorgesetzten jahrelang zu einem "cold case" haben verkommen lassen. Jussi Adler-Olsens Buch ist eine freundliche Ohrfeige für all die Bürokraten, die zu wissen glauben, worum es geht, aber im Grunde keine Ahnung haben und ihre Positionen für egoistische Zwecke ausnutzen. Gleichzeitig ist es ein ermutigender Aufruf an all jene, die an den Rand gedrängt wurden, sich auf ihre Leidenschaft, ihr Können und ihre harte Arbeit zu konzentrieren. Dies wird immer über Titel, Vetternwirtschaft und Mittelmäßigkeit triumphieren - sowohl im Buch als auch im wirklichen Leben. ______________ "Erbarmen" (English: "Keeper of the Lost Causes") is the first volume in the “Department Q” series by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen. I saw the German film adaptation of the book of the same name a few years ago. Now Netflix is adapting the book as an eight-part series, starring Matthew Goode (as detective Carl Mørck) and Alexej Manvelov (as his assistant Hafez el-Assad, in the new English version called Akram Salim). However, the Netflix film adaptation is set in Edinburgh, Scotland. (This will probably take away much of the Danish charm and the special characteristics that the original story has. Despite a soft spot for Scotland, I would have preferred the original setting in Denmark). I read the book in preparation to see how the material would be handled in the new adaptation, in particular how the character of Carl Mørck would be portrayed. If you take the book out of the context of a crime novel, it contains a hopeful message, and not primarily because the victim is saved at the end (as it mostly happens in such novels). The book describes Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad as two intelligent, hard-working detectives who are sidelined by their superiors due to their “peculiarities”, i.e. an illness (Mørck) and origin (el-Assad). However, the passion that both bring to their jobs and the tenacity that comes with it means that they end up solving an important case that the police superiors have allowed to degenerate into a cold case for years. Jussi Adler-Olsen's book is a friendly slap in the face to all those bureaucrats who think they know what it's all about but have no idea and abuse their position for their selfish gain. At the same time, it is an encouraging call to all those who have been sidelined to focus on their passion, skill and hard work. This will always triumph over titles, nepotism and mediocrity - both in the book and in real life.

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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…