Adapted into a series on Netflix under the title The forgotten files ( Dept.Q )

More than 13 million copies sold worldwide, crowned by all the major crime fiction awards, including the Elle Readers' Grand Prix for Police , the Danish Jussi Adler Olsen is a a key figure in Scandinavian thrillers.

Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, late 1990s . The body of a young girl is found in a tree, her bicycle crushed at the side of the road. No trace of the driver: case closed. Except for a local police inspector who ends up seventeen years later asking for help from Inspector Carl Mørck. Before shooting himself in the head.

At the initiative of Rose, assistant to the phlegmatic Mørck, the unusual trio from Department V, in charge of cold cases, arrives on the island of Bornholm. By stirring up the past, they risk awakening old demons...