Book Log 2016 #27: The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen

A police officer's suicide goads Carl Morck and Department Q to take on a cold case involving a teenage girl found hanging in a tree, a location initially ascribed to being hit by a truck. The dead officer left behind a mountain of information accumulated during his own investigation, creating its own obstacle for Morck and company. As they get deeper into the case, it appears that an alternative religious community (or more accurately, its charismatic leader) may be to blame.
  
I still don't think this series has gotten back to the quality of its early books, but I do think this is better than, say, The Marco Effect.  What I don't know is if this is an issue with the translation, a lack of new ideas for cases, or difficulties in trying to balance the cases with the other subplots (Assad's mysterious past, Rose's mental health, and the building site ambush that left Carl's colleague turned housemate paralyzed). Still worth working through, I think, but it may be time to either wrap up some of these stories or take a book or two to make them the main story so there's some progress.