David Hewson’s The Killing 1 may be the novelization from the first series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Getting rid of.

Through the dark wood where in fact the dead trees give simply no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs . There’s a bright monocular attention that follows, such as a hunter after a wounded deer. It goes in a sluggish getting close to zigzag, marching through the Pineseskoven wasteland, through the Pentecost Forest.

The chill water, worries, his presence not so far away . . .

There is one torchlight on her behalf now, approximately The Killing 1 the single blazing eye. And it is here . . .

Sarah Lund is looking forward to her last day time being a detective using the Copenhagen police division before moving to Sweden. But everything adjustments when nineteen-year-old college student, Nanna Birk Larsen, is found raped and brutally murdered in the woods outside the city. Lund’s plans to relocate are placed on keep as she prospects the analysis along with fellow detective Jan Meyer.

While Nanna’s family members struggles to handle their reduction, local politician, Troels Hartmann, is in the middle of an election marketing campaign to become the brand new mayor of Copenhagen. When links between Town Hall as well as the murder instantly come to light , the case requires a completely different turn.

Over the course of twenty days, suspect upon suspect emerges as violence and political intrigue cast their shadows within the search for the killer.