DCI Carl Morck is a superb cop however a horrible colleague. His razor-sharp sarcasm has made him no mates in Edinburgh police. After a taking pictures that leaves a younger computer lifeless, and his companion paralysed, he finds himself exiled to the basement and the only member of Division Q; a newly fashioned chilly case unit. The division is a PR stunt, there to distract the general public from the failures of an under-resourced, failing police power that’s glad to see the again of him. However extra accidentally than design, Carl begins to construct a gang of waifs and strays who’ve every little thing to show. So, when the stone-cold path of a distinguished civil servant who disappeared a number of years in the past begins to warmth up, Carl is again doing what he does greatest – rattling cages and refusing to take no for a solution.