François started reading Roughneck by Jim Thompson (Vintage Crime)

Roughneck by Jim Thompson (Vintage Crime)
Roughneck is pulp noir master Jim Thompson's quasi-autobiography of the wandering wild days of one of America's wildest wandering authors. …
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10% complete! François has read 11 of 104 books.

Roughneck is pulp noir master Jim Thompson's quasi-autobiography of the wandering wild days of one of America's wildest wandering authors. …

On her sixtieth birthday, a woman takes her own life. When the case lands on Detective Carl Mørck’s desk, he …
very good as usual, and the last of the serie. realized I missed #9 before this one so still have one to read. Interresting ending. I won't spoil it :-)
very good as usual, and the last of the serie. realized I missed #9 before this one so still have one to read. Interresting ending. I won't spoil it :-)

When the head of Department Q, Detective Carl Mørck, finds himself handcuffed in a police car headed for Copenhagen's Vestre …

The newspaper refers to the dead body only as Victim 2117 - the two thousand, one hundred and seventeenth refugee …

Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division, meets his toughest challenge yet when the dark, troubled past …

In the middle of a hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Morck, head of Department Q, …

Fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson longs to become a Danish citizen and go to school like a normal teenager. Unfortunately, his Uncle …
Another most excellent book in the department Q series. This series is very enjoyable - warning tho: better read them in sequence, because if every book can stand alone, there is also several background story about the protagonists that are better read in sequence.

In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her in her youth, including Curt Wad, a charismatic surgeon …