Book Log 2014 #1: A Conspiracy of Faith by Jussi Adler Olsen

The case at the center of this third installment of the Department Q series springs from a message in a bottle, written years before and discovered by British authorities and only getting back to Denmark by chance. The note leads the department to a string of cases involving the kidnapping and murder of children from families belonging to certain religious sects. And while the department is piecing this together, we get to spend a fair amount of time with the criminal himself as he plans and executes his next kidnapping. This isn't unprecedented - the last book in the series did something similar, albeit well after the killings in question - and it does help to give some context to why he does what he does and make it seem more plausible.

There's also a decent amount of time spent on the two assistants - we learn more about Assad's homelife, and meet Rose's oddly familiar sister, who comes in to help when Rose takes an impromptu hiatus - and we continue to work through the case that paralyzed Hardy and sent Morck to the basement to look at cold cases. All in all its an effective entry in the series.