The Keeper of Lost Causes

     Have you ever read a book that you could not wait to find out the ending but then when it is over you are clamoring to find out when the authors next book is due to be published?  Well that is what happened to me this past week.  Angie, our collection development librarian, poked her head around the corner and held up a book with a familiar looking cover.  Much like  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo the orange and yellowish cover caught my eye.  Angie told me the book was an international best seller and was the first in a series and offered me the first read.  I took her up on the offer and that is how I ended up getting up fifteen minutes early each morning so I could read for those extra minutes.  The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Asler-Olsen is a page turner from page one. The story takes place in Denmark so reading in "unfamiliar" territory made me read some of the sentences a time or two to keep the happenings fresh in my mind  The jacket of the book tells you about a "deeply flawed chief detective Carl Morck" and the department he is assigned to run after a shooting that takes the life of one of his fellow officers and leaves the other permanently damaged.  Carl is assigned to special cases and is relegated to the basement of the police department.  The department is called Department Q and Carl is its only member until he is assigned Assad and there is where their investigations begin.  The odd couple relationship of these two men carries you page after page to find the resolution to their first case involving a politician that vanished five years ago.  I thoroughly enjoyed the book and will anxiously await the next installment in this exciting new series. EP