The Killing 3

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 linked to an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Troels Hartmann. The murder draws attention towards the shipping giant, Zeeland, run by billionaire Robert Zeuthen.

When Zeuthen's nine-year-old daughter Emilie is kidnapped, the investigation takes on a darker dimension. 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 by the mounting financial crisis. He needs Zeeland's backing.

Lund needs to make sense of the clues left by Emilie's abductor before it's too late. Can she save Emilia's life? And can she finally face the demons that have long haunted her?


Praise for The Killing

'Turns TV gold into literary gold' Telegraph

'A novel in the hugely experienced hands of David Hewson that defies expectation. Hewson's style is tight, lean, almost like a film script' Daily Express

'Clear, clipped prose is beautifully up to the task, as is his forensic attention to the original's details . . . And the ending leaves a very different, but no less thought-provoking taste' Mirror

'An excellent stand-alone novel - but perhaps Hewson's greatest achievement is that it's compelling reading' Observer