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Feb 11, 2018ba_library rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I enjoy the Department Q novels. It helps if you have read the first few so you are familiar the characters and the setting. Many scarred women in this book. A bunch of young welfare abusing women decide to rob a business and reap the rewards. However, a welfare officer hates these girls and decides to extract her personal revenge. One of the girls' grandfather was a Nazi officer (who has since died) but his wife is killed and more murders occur. Department Q finally gets involved, but there is trouble in-house as usual. Rose, their able assistant is having problems that they need to carefully address while looking into the murders as the upstairs homicide team bungles around and Morck and Assad are assigned a television crew to babysit. We learn much more about Rose and her life and we keep getting clues into Assad's unknown background, Morck's personal life always crops up (I find his romantic life pretty dull), his stepson has moved out, his former mother-in-law wants to learn how to use her phone to take nude selfies and buddy Hardy is gaining more physical ability but his mind, as usual, is detective sharp. Author J A-O seems to love making females the bad guys - sometimes it comes across odd/strange because the women/girls often seem very cliched. I found it a quick read as usual, he does mention the previous books in this novel. I want to know more about Assad, but that plot line remains hidden/buried at this time.