Books by David Hewson

Sarah Lund har sidste arbejdsdag som vicekriminalkommisær i drabsafdelingen ved Københavns Politi. Hun skal flytte til Sverige med sin svenske kæreste og sin teenagesøn. Men planerne bliver ændret, da en ung kvinde bliver fundet dræbt uden for København. Sarah Lund bliver bedt om at lede efterforskningen sammen med sin afløser, Jan Meyer. Den 19-årige gymnasieelev Nanna Birk Larsen er blevet voldtaget og dræbt, og hendes lig bliver fundet i en bil, der viser sig at tilhøre lokalpolitikeren og borgmesterkandidaten Troels Hartmannskampagnekontor. Hartmann er midt i en krævende valgkamp, og hans politiske modstandere er ikke sene til at udnytte forbindelsen mellem ham og drabetpå Nanna Birk Larsen. Sarah Lund og Jan Meyer kommer vidt omkring: politikere på Københavns Rådhus, elever på Nannas gymnasium, familie og venner bliver opsøgt igen og igen, mens Sarah Lund langsomt opsluges af sagen og den hæsblæsende og livsfarlige jagt på gerningsmanden.

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David Hewson's The Killing 2 is the novelization of the second series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing.It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left Copenhagen in disgrace for a remote outpost in northern Denmark. When the body of a female lawyer is found in macabre circumstances in a military graveyard, there are elements of the crime scene that take Head of Homicide, Lennart Brix, back to an occupied wartime Denmark - a time its countrymen would wish to forget. Brix knows that Lund is the one person he can rely on to discover the truth. Reluctantly she returns to Copenhagen and becomes intrigued with the facts surrounding the case. As more bodies are found, Lund comes to see a pattern and she realizes that the identity of the killer will be known once the truth behind a more recent wartime mission is finally revealed . . .

David Hewson's The Killing 3 is the novelization of the third series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing.Detective Inspector for homicide, Sarah Lund, is contacted by old flame Mathias Borch from National Intelligence. Borch fears that what first appeared to be a random killing at the docks is the beginning of an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Troels Hartmann. The murder draws attention towards the shipping and oil giant, Zeeland, run by billionaire Robert Zeuthen.When Zeuthen's 9-year-old daughter, Emilie, is kidnapped the investigation takes on a different dimension as it soon becomes clear that her disappearance is linked to the murder of a young girl in Jutland some years earlier.Hartmann is in the middle of an election campaign, made all the more turbulent because of the mounting financial crisis. He needs Zeeland's backing.Lund needs to make sense of the clues left by Emilie's perpetrator before it's too late.And can she finally face the demons that have long haunted her?