Published by Macmillan
17 January 2013.
ISBN: 978-1447208426
Sarah Lund of the Danish
police is recalled to Copenhagen
from her exile in Gedser. A new and
nasty serial killer is loose, and his motivation seems linked to an alleged
atrocity committed by a Danish officer in Helmand
province. It’s a scandal that Thomas
Buch, newly-appointed Minister of Justice, isn’t going to ignore ...
This was an excellent read.
I really enjoyed the mixture of detection and current affaird. Lund
is a feisty heroine whose guilt over the shooting of her former partner was
convincingly handled, and her sidekick Strange is an interesting
character. I never saw the TV series,
but had no difficulty in visualising and remembering the many characters in the
police, in politics or in the army world.
The dialogue, as you’d expect, was tautly written, and the book flipped
quickly between scenes, so that all the strands of a complex story were kept in
play.
A fast-moving thriller which will recreate the world of the
TV show for those who want to return to it, and give those who missed it a new
detective to follow.
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Reviewer: Marsali
Taylor
David Hewson was
born in Yorkshire in 1953 and left school at the age of seventeen to work as a
cub reporter on one of the smallest evening newspapers in the country in Scarborough. Eight years later he was a staff reporter on
The Times in London,
covering news, business and latterly working as arts correspondent. He worked
on the launch of the Independent and was a weekly columnist for the Sunday
Times for a decade before giving up journalism entirely in 2005 to focus on
writing fiction. His novels have been translated into a wide range of
languages, from Italian to Japanese, and his debut work,
Semana Santa, set in Holy Week Spain, was filmed with Mira Sorvino
and Olivier Martinez.
Semana Santa
won the WH Smith Fresh Talent award for one of the best debut novels of the
year in 1996.and was later made into a movie starring Mira Sorvino. Four
standalone works followed before
A Season
for the Dead, the first in a series set in Italy. He has featured regularly on
the speaker lists of leading international book events, including the Melbourne
and Ottawa
writers' festivals, the Harrogate Crime Festival, Thrillerfest, Bouchercon and
Left Coast Crime. He has taught at writing schools around the world and is a
regular faculty member for the Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference in Corte Madera, California,
where he has worked alongside writers such as Martin Cruz Smith and Michael
Connelly.
Marsali Taylor grew
up near Edinburgh,
and came to Shetland as a newly-qualified teacher. She is currently a part-time
teacher on Shetland's scenic west side, living with her husband and two
Shetland ponies. Marsali is a qualified STGA tourist-guide who is fascinated by
history, and has published plays in Shetland's distinctive dialect, as well as
a history of women's suffrage in Shetland. She's also a keen sailor who enjoys
exploring in her own 8m yacht, and an active member of her local drama
group.
Marsali also does a regular
monthly column for the Mystery People e-zine.
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