Instead I found myself completely engrossed by a complex plot populated by strong, intriguing characters, such as Detective Sarah Lund and Detective Ulrik Strange. I have to be honest, I expected that I would quickly abandon this book in the same way that I gave up on the television series, The Killing, it is based on. As more bodies are found, Lund comes to see a pattern and she realises that the identity of the killer will be known once the truth behind a more recent wartime mission is finally revealed.more Reluctantly she returns to Copenhagen and becomes intrigued with the facts surrounding the case. 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.īrix knows that Lund is the one person he can rely on to discover the truth. 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 – It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case.

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