If like us, you spent your weekend intensely binge-watching Netflix’s newest thriller series Dept Q and are already desperate for more, then you’re in luck. No, the series hasn’t yet been confirmed for series two just yet (fingers crossed tho!), but there is in fact an entire movie series of the same books you can watch right now.
Dept Q is based on a series of books by Jussi Adler-Olsen and follows Detective Carl Morck who is set up in a new department investigating cold cases in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Netflix series follows the first book in the series closely but makes one big change – it’s set in Scotland and is in English.
But the Netflix version isn’t the only adaptation of the story. A few years after the novel was originally published in 2007, a Scandi film adaption was made of the novel, and we’ve got all the details on where to see it and its sequels.
What are the Department Q books?
The Department Q novel series began in 2007 by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen and he has since published 10 novels in the series, all following Detective Carl Morck as he solves cold cases alongside his team of Assad (Akram in the Netflix series) and Rose.
The most recent novel Locked In in the series was published in 2021 and sees Carl himself behind bars.
What are the Department Q movies?
Several years after the release of the first novel in the Department Q series Mercy, in 2013 a movie adaptation of the novel was released in Denmark called The Keeper of Lost Causes.
It stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Detective Carl Morck, Fares Fares as Assad and Sonja Richter as Merete Lynnggard, and follows a similar plot to that of the Netflix series.
The second film The Absent One, based on the novel of the same was released a year later in 2014 and follows Carl and Assad investigating the double murder of a pair of twins whose death was meant to have been solved 20 years ago.
A third film in the series A Conspiracy of Faith was released in 2016 and shows what happens after an eight old message in a bottle turns up. There was also a fourth film The Purity of Vengenace released in 2018 which is about what happens when the duo discover three mummified bodies in an apartment.
How can I watch the Department Q movies?
If you want to see more of this unlikely police duo solving cold cases then thankfully you can find all four of the movies online.
They are all available through ViaPlay on Prime Video and right now you can try a free seven day trial of ViaPlay.
After the week is up this then auto-renews for £4.99 a month if you don’t cancel it after your trial.
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