THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES, and Top Crime Novels of All Time

We just read THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES by Jussi Adler-Olsen in our mystery group, "Book 'Em!--and I'm into his second book, THE ABSENT ONE as I write this.  THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES was given starred reviews by three of the four top review sites--and a definite thumbs up by our book discussion group, and is the first of the Department Q series. 

Carl Morck used to be one of Copenhagen's best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl--who didn't draw his weapon--blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. The new Department Q is a department of one, and Carl's got only a stack of Copenhagen's coldest cases for company. When Carl demands an assistant, he gets a lot more than he bargained for--a mysterious Muslim named Hassad who dons rubber gloves to clean thoroughly, makes bad coffee, drives like a madman, and acts like a Syrian Sherlock Holmes. Carl is content to put his feet up and do little or nothing, but Assad digs into the case files. He locates valuable bits of information, smoozes with the secretaries, and goads Carl into acting like a detective. This unlikely pair soon become wrapped up with a challenging cold case--the disappearance five years earlier of Merete Lynggaard, a beautiful, talented, and dedicated young politician. Did Merete fall overboard while she was a passenger on a ferry? Did she commit suicide? Or did someone abduct her? Is she really dead?  This is Scandinavian crime fiction at its best.

Just for fun, I ran across a list of the 101 Top Crime Fiction Novels of All Time, and found I've only read about 20 percent of them.  Take a look--how many have you read?  Do you think anything is missing?  I would have liked to see THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO there. What do you think?

~ Katherine