In spite of his very best efforts, cantankerous Detective Chief Inspector Carl Morck (Matthew Goode) remains employed by the police department of Edinburgh, Scotland — and now, he’s coming back for another season of Dept. Q, the hit mystery series from creator Scott Frank (The Queen’s Gambit). 

Also returning? The crew of misfit investigators he built over the course of the first season, including Alexej Manvelov as Akram, Leah Byrne as Rose, and Jamie Sives as Hardy. And, of course, it wouldn’t be Dept. Q without the series’ other protagonist: Edinburgh itself, where production will once again take place.

“I’d like to thank Netflix for giving us the opportunity to further investigate Dept. Q’s storylines,” Goode says in a statement to Netflix. “We have a wonderful cast and crew, headed by our resident genius Scott Frank. I cannot wait to read what comes from his magic quill!”

Based on the novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen, Dept. Q follows the maverick Department Q team, headquartered in the basement of an Edinburgh police station and assigned to re-investigate with cases previously deemed unsolvable. The darkly humorous, propulsive show delivers all the pleasures of a procedural, taking us into the complex mysteries not just of the cases but of the detectives themselves. Season 1 spent six weeks in the Global Top Ten shows on Netflix. 

“We are raring to return to Carl Morck and his band of glorious misfits at Dept. Q,” Netflix executives Mona Qureshi and Manda Levin say in a statement. “Scott Frank brought us best-in-class storytelling and thrilled Netflix audiences worldwide. We can’t wait to see what Morck and the gang uncover in Season 2 … Edinburgh, we’re back.”

Stay tuned for more details on the next cold case that Morck and co. will be cracking … and keep your fingers crossed that they’re able to clean up their basement a bit between seasons.