A New York Times Bestselling Author A Department Q Novel In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl has no choice but to lead Department Q into the tragic cold case of a missing seventeen-year-old girl who was found dead hanging high up in a tree. Now Carl, Assad, Rose, and newcomer Gordon must stop a string of new murders and a skilled manipulator.