Good characters .. quite banal plot

Carl Mørck is upset by the deaths and serious injuries of his two teammates .. not far from the breaking point, it is put in a gilded closet, naming the Commissioner of any new department V loaded to resume old surveys never accomplished .. There he installed in an office in the basement, wearing a Syrian stooge (Hafez Assad), mid secretary mid cleaning man and especially with a huge desire to do nothing of his days .. but an initial investigation will gradually replace the saddle: the disappearance of a declared policy woman lost at sea five years ago ...
Aided by his assistant that proves possess unsuspected skills, it will stain to untie the knots on his disappearance .. and that's good, that person is the whole time locked in a cellar ...

The first half of the novel plays on a rather surprising gap between the rather humorous lightness of the new duo which forms and the blackness of the tragic situation Merette, captive politician. Then the advancing novel, the duo, approaching slowly from the truth, this shift will give way to a true classic in its unfolding investigation ...
From a point of view purely police officer, if the chapters devoted to the captive are effective, this novel is not a particularly complex plot or suspense panting .. we can also question the credibility of some passages, Hafez Assad often acting as if he was himself a policeman.
By cons, Jussi Adler-Olsen us discover two devilishly cool characters with this jaded cop and this wizard we guess a past loaded ... and I'm curious to find these two stooges in new adventures.