Revisit the characters you’ve grown to love. Rose rises from the ashes. Gordon matures. Carl and Assad deal with their most challenging adversary and we finally learn Assad’s backstory.

I’m a big fan of this author and have read all of the Dept Q novels but this one fell quite far below the usual standard for this series. The writing and storyline both seemed forced and choppy, as if the author just wasn’t really into writing this book. If you’re a fan of the series you’ll have to read it to learn Assad’s long awaited backstory, but if the next in the series reads like this one did that would likely be the last I’d read. All of the other books leading up to this one were excellent and are highly recommend. Hope to see better things from this author in the future.

I am very sorry to say that this and the last 3 books are just so bad. There is no story and the translation is so crude and infantile. The first 4 books were so great and full of heart and humanity. I don’t know why such a drastic u-turn. Very disappointed.