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A review by april_does_feral_sometimes
The Killing 2 by David Hewson
4.0
'The Killing II' begins with a murder that is difficult for the Copenhagen police. The dead woman, Anne Dragsholm, was a lawyer advising the Danish military. She is found at Mindelunden, where the Germans shot Denmark's resistance fighters in World War II. The murder scene is bizarre, so immediately Lennart Brix, head of the Copenhagen homicide team, wants Detective Sarah Lund on the case. The problem is Lund was shipped out to another job, after the events described in [b:The Killing|13482422|The Killing (The Killing, #1)|David Hewson|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1334590910s/13482422.jpg|19015944], the first book in this series. She is now a border guard at Gedser, watching for smugglers. How to get her back? Brix will find a way....
This novel is another intricate mystery adapted from the television series by David Hewson where the plot twists around the powerful in the highest offices of Danish Parliament in Copenhagen to a bakery in a dusty village in Afghanistan. Red herrings abound, and there are at least five possible murderers and motives. Gentle reader, you will want at least a weekend of uninterrupted reading to get to the bottom of these many dark political cul-de-sacs and military misdeeds!
This novel is another intricate mystery adapted from the television series by David Hewson where the plot twists around the powerful in the highest offices of Danish Parliament in Copenhagen to a bakery in a dusty village in Afghanistan. Red herrings abound, and there are at least five possible murderers and motives. Gentle reader, you will want at least a weekend of uninterrupted reading to get to the bottom of these many dark political cul-de-sacs and military misdeeds!