The Shadow Murders
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Where The Shadow Murders sits
- Series
- Book 9 of Department Q. See all Department Q books in order
- The book before
- Victim 2117
- The book after
- Locked In
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- Last checked: September 24, 2026, against penguinrandomhouse.com
What The Shadow Murders is about
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- A woman takes her own life on her sixtieth birthday, and the case reaches Detective Carl Morck's desk. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
On her sixtieth birthday, a woman commits suicide
- His boss, Marcus Jacobsen, believes it was murder, tied to a case he has failed to solve since 1988. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
a murder related to an unsolved case that has been plaguing him since 1988
- With Rose, Assad and Gordon, Carl starts to look into it, though none of them is keen. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
Carl and the Department Q gang-Rose, Assad, and Gordon-reluctantly begin to investigate
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Book type
- Novels
Reading ages
- Adult
Other books in Department Q
10 books listed so far
- Book 1: The Keeper of Lost Causes
- Book 2: The Absent One
- Book 3: A Conspiracy of Faith
- Book 4: The Purity of Vengeance
- Book 5: The Marco Effect
- Book 6: The Hanging Girl
- Book 7: The Scarred Woman
- Book 8: Victim 2117
- Book 10: Locked In
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