Fact Sheet

A selection of the most important awards:

• Audience Award – Horsens Crime Fair (2019)
• The Ripper Award – Europe (2014/2015)
• The Barry Award – USA (2012)
• The Golden Laurels – Denmark (2011)
• The Glass Key – Scandinavia (2010)

 

Bibliography:

Department Q:

• The woman in the cage – Q1 (2007)
• The Pheasant Killers – Q2 (2008)
• Message in a bottle from P – Q3 (2009)
• journal 64 – Q4 (2010)
• The Marco Effect – Q5 (2012)
• The Boundless – Q6 (2014)
• Selfies – Q7 (2016)
• Offer 2117 – Q8 (2019)
• Sodium Chloride – Q9 (2021)
• Seven m2 with lock – Q10 (2023)
• Dead Souls Don't Sing – Q11 (2025)

 

Stand-alones:

• The Alphabet House (1997)
• And she thanked the gods (formerly The Company Crusher) (2003)
• The Washington Decree (2006)

 

Other publications:

• Groucho & Co's Worst (1984)
• Danish comic book lexicon – the big Komiklex (1985)
• Groucho – a Marx Brother behind the facade (1985)
• The Crack (2010)
• Christmas in Vridsløselille (2010)
• Small spicy murders (2011)
• Jussi – a biography by Jonas Langvad Nilsson (2017)
• Madness – Department Q game (2023)

 

Fun fact: Behind the largest first edition of 230.000 copies of The Boundless in Danish history.

 

Private: Married to Hanne Adler-Olsen, one son. Lives in Hørsholm.

(updated October 2023)