Order of Jussi Adler-Olsen Books
Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author of Scandinavian crime fiction. He is best known in English-speaking countries for his Department Q series. His novels have been sold in 36 countries around in the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain, Russia, The Netherlands, Japan, Germany and China. He was the most popular author in Germany in the year 2011, despite not being German.
Jussi Adler-Olsen became a published author in 1985 with a non-fiction book on Groucho Marx. His first foray into fiction was Alfabethuset (The Alphabet House) in 1997. His first novel to be published in English was Mercy (UK)/The Keeper of Lost Causes (US). Below is a list of Jussi Adler-Olsen’s books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Department Q Books
| The Keeper of Lost Causes / Mercy | (2011) |    |
| The Absent One / Disgrace | (2012) | |
| A Conspiracy of Faith / Redemption | (2013) | |
| The Purity of Vengeance / Guilt | (2013) | |
| The Marco Effect / Buried | (2013) | |
| The Hanging Girl | (2014) | |
| The Scarred Woman | (2016) | |
| Victim 2117 | (2020) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Alphabet House | (1997) | |
| The Washington Decree | (2018) | |
Notes: Mercy was also published as The Keeper of Lost Causes. Disgrace is also known as The Absent One. A Conspiracy of Faith was published as Redemption in the UK. The Purity of Vengeance is also known as Contempt in the UK. The Marco Effect was also published as Buried.
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Recently came across the Dept Q series and although I wasn’t hooked by the first book I persevered through English version audio books and I am now hooked!! I am waiting to listen to the Scarred Woman and I am that there is only one more book after this and its coming out next year! Mr Adler-Olsen, I am a fan.
I absolutely love Department Q, and am reading every book of Jussi Adler Olsen!
More Department Q books, please!!!
I thought nothing could ever beat the fantastic journeys we’ve taken with Carl and his motley crew–that is, until “The Alphabet House.”
Am still 10 chapters from the end of AH, which I take in daily morsels due to long distance walking, but it’s by turns harrowing, nail-biting and yet another study JAO style on the depravity of man that he so skillfully can show us with his tales. (And I’m a sucker for a great WW2 tale, anyway).
Have gone through 5 with Carl and Co., have been waiting for eons for The Hanging Girl in the hold queue at the local library. We need more JAO! More Carl and his cohorts!
And just when we finally got a big clue (blink and you’ll miss is) into the way Assad made his way to Denmark, (it’s either depressingly dismaying or heart warming, it could go either way) in The Marco Effect, the hold queue seems painfully long now for THG.
As we read on, hope JAO is hard at work on more more more.
I’m so glad I found Jo Nesbo and Jussi Adler-Olsen. Love the Dept. Q characters. Another good new author (to me) is Olen Steinhauer with his character Milo Weaver. All great reads.
Terrific books that I just stumbled over last year. Absolutely first class.
Now I have three friends hooked on Dept Q. The secretary is a hoot. You never know ‘who’ is coming in to work on what day. The ‘janitor’ is very mysterious and I am looking forward to finding out more of his back story.
There’s no doubt that most of the best current crime fiction is coming from Scandinavia, and Jussi Adler-Olsen is right in the forefront. I’ve so far read the first two of the Department Q series, and am about to begin the third. He certainly has a feeling for the darker side of human nature, but he is able to balance that with a wonderful, sardonic wit. Looking forward to getting hold of the film based on The Absent One – the film version of The Keeper Of Lost Causes was excellent.
Crazy good Nordic crime fiction. The protagonist Carl Morck and fellow basement dwellers of Department Q, the inscrutable Assad and the, what’s the opposite of inscrutable, scrutable?, Rose, make for a wonderfully disparate crew solving cold cases. If you loved stieg, worship nesbo, and miss mankell’s wallander, these books fill the void.