★丹麥最暢銷作家，書籍銷量佔總人口三分之一！
★包辦AMAZON總榜一、二、三名，蟬聯排行榜至今超過100週。
★電影由《龍紋身的女孩》製作團隊重金打造。
★系列三本於德國銷量突破200萬冊。
★榮獲2010年北歐最佳犯罪小說（「玻璃鑰匙獎」）。
★榮獲哈洛．莫根森最佳犯罪小說獎。
★國際性文學雜誌《書文化》年度全球最佳犯罪小說第二名。
★丹麥讀者圖書獎（丹麥最重要的文學獎）。
「妳為什麼被關在這裡？」
只有答出這個問題，她，才可能活命。
「生日快樂，梅瑞特。恭喜妳三十二歲了，今天是七月六號，妳待在這裡已經一百二十六天。給妳的生日賀禮是，從現在起一整年都開著燈，除非妳能回答一個問題－－為什麼我們把妳關在這座地牢裡？」
丹麥最神祕離奇、卻又無人能破的懸案，唯有他，能解開通往關鍵線索的密碼。卡爾．莫爾克，哥本哈根的資探警探，具有獵犬般的直覺、對線索緊咬不放的毅力，當最優秀的警探碰上最棘手的懸案，真相能否水落石出？
Jussi Adler-Olsen is Denmark's premier crime writer. His books routinely top the bestseller lists in northern Europe, and he's won just about every Nordic crime-writing award, including the prestigious Glass Key Award-also won by Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, and Jo Nesbo. Now, Dutton is thrilled to introduce him to America.
The Keeper of Lost Causes, the first installment of Adler- Olsen's Department Q series, features the deeply flawed chief detective Carl MOrck, who used to be a good homicide detective-one of Copenhagen's best. Then a bullet almost took his life. Two of his colleagues weren't so lucky, and Carl, who didn't draw his weapon, blames himself.
So a promotion is the last thing Carl expects.
But it all becomes clear when he sees his new office in the basement. Carl's been selected to run Department Q, a new special investigations division that turns out to be a department of one. With a stack of Copenhagen's coldest cases to keep him company, Carl's been put out to pasture. So he's as surprised as anyone when a case actually captures his interest. A missing politician vanished without a trace five years earlier. The world assumes she's dead. His colleagues snicker about the time he's wasting. But Carl may have the last laugh, and redeem himself in the process.
Because she isn't dead . . . yet.
★本書原文書名: KVINDEN I BURET
★本書中譯版《懸案密碼：籠裡的女人》由奇幻基地出版。
作者簡介
猶希．阿德勒．歐爾森（Jussi Adler-Olsen）
一九五○年生於丹麥哥本哈根，主修醫學、社會學、政治史、電影等科系，也從事過多種不同領域的行業。一九九五年，歐爾森開始寫作，兩年後便以第一本小說榮登瑞典、西班牙、南美等國暢銷書排行榜。
因為父親工作的因素，歐爾森從小在精神療養院長大，這段特殊的童年經歷使他日後創作犯罪小說時重視心理層面、人物刻畫，而不以常見的暴力情節為筆下的主軸。寫作以來，作品得到許多全國性及國際性獎項肯定，除了曾入選國際性文學雜誌《書文化》（Buchkultur）年度全球最佳犯罪小說第二名，以及哈洛．莫根森（Harald-Mogensen-Krimipreis）最佳犯罪小說獎之外，更繼《龍紋身的女孩》作者史迪格．拉森之後，奪得北歐最重要的犯罪小說獎－－「玻璃鑰匙獎」（Glass Key Award）。
「懸案密碼」是以卡爾．莫爾克為主角的最新犯罪小說系列，也是令歐爾森驚豔國際文壇的代表作。首集《籠裡的女人》在法蘭克福書展造成轟動，上市短短數天，初版的兩萬五千冊便銷售一空，而第三集《染血的瓶中信》（暫名）更是一推出即躍上排行榜冠軍寶座。在德國AMAZON上，「懸案密碼」創下包辦總榜一、二、三名驚人成績，並已盤踞暢銷排行榜超過一百週之久，至今銷售突破兩百萬冊。今年年底，曾拍攝《龍紋身的女孩》的德國ZDF將與丹麥電影公司Zentropa攜手合作，打造本系列的電影。
歐爾森無疑是當今丹麥最暢銷的作家。目前已婚，是一個孩子的父親。
Jussi Adler-Olsen is Denmark's #1 crime writer. This novel has already appeared at the top of bestseller lists in Denmark and Germany, and subsequent entries in the series debuted at #1.
