Jussi Adler-Olsen was born in Copenhagen and worked as a magazine editor and publisher before starting to write fiction. Mercy and Disgrace are the first two in currently four novels in the Department Q series. He holds the prestigious Glass Key Award, given annually for a crime novel by a Scandinavian author, and is also winner of the Golden Laurels, Denmark's highest literary accolade.
Grippingly different The Times This is your methadone if you enjoyed The Killing and found it overwhelmingly addictive BBC Radio 2 Claudia Winkleman Arts Show A weighty and disturbing novel ... with an ingenuity as impressive as it is unnerving Independent