The Marco Effect
by Jussi Adler-Olsen (Denmark)
2014/ (496 pages)
read by Graeme Malcolm 15h 25m
rating A / detective
(5th in the Dept. Q series)

Second readings are often very profitable so as “leader” of an upcoming discussion I took a quick reread of The Marco Effect.  It  still gets an “A” but maybe a tad more solid.

You bet!  Now that I have some idea of what’s going on it’s much better.  The introductory material – the set-up stuff, from the Prologue through Chapter 4 – is too long.  That really got me off on the wrong foot last time.  This time I understood those first chapters – what was going on and how it linked in.

Copenhagen is really just a big city along the lines of Dallas or something – equivalent populations – and there’s a crime element in both cities and much of it has to do with immigrants.   This is a huge theme in The Marco Effect.   >>>>MORE>>>>