Following a failed operation, chief detective Carl Mørck is assigned to Department Q, a department for old, terminated cases. It consists only of himself and his new assistant Assad.
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family.
A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with his physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever. A ROYAL AFFAIR is the true story of an ordinary man who wins the queen's heart and starts a revolution.