num_pages: 512
description: In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters Carl Mrck head of Department Q receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive when he realizes that a new case is being foisted on him but a few hours later he receives some shocking news that leaves his headstrong assistant Rose more furious than usual. Carl has no choice but to lead Department Q into the tragic cold case of a vivacious seventeen-year-old girl who vanished from school only to be found dead hanging high up in a tree. The investigation will take them from the remote island of Bornholm to a strange sun worshipping cult where Carl Assad Rose and newcomer Gordon attempt to stop a string of new murders and a skilled manipulator who refuses to let anythingor anyoneget in the way.
language: English
title: The Hanging Girl
publisher: Dutton