The Killing 3 (57 page)

The shorter chestnut hair suited her. Some nicer clothes . . .

‘Was it worth it?’ he asked.

‘Do you think I had a choice?’

Lennart Brix leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, thought about this. Then put his wallet on the table, took out all the money he had, pushed it over.

‘We can stop off at a cash machine. I can get you more.’

Lund stared at the notes, didn’t move.

‘I’ve got plenty of work to be going on with,’ Brix added. ‘You’re smart enough to vanish again. Just do it, will you?’

She wrinkled her nose at him, disappointed.

‘You want me to run away? That’s what Borch said. I don’t . . .’ She chopped at her breakfast with the knife and fork. ‘I don’t do that.’

‘No,’ he agreed. ‘You don’t.’

‘On the other hand . . .’

A glint in her eyes. His hopes rose.

‘I’d like another fried egg,’ she said. ‘Before you take me in. And a drive. Not a long one.’

Forty-five minutes later they were in the modest suburb of Herlev. He’d never been there. Never been close to this woman’s strange and private life at all.

It was a modest wooden bungalow, painted red. Brix slowed the car as they approached. Festive lights winked beneath the guttering. There was a bright-blue Christiania trike by the front door,
with what looked like a fitting for a cot.

A black car stood outside. Had been there ever since Lund went missing. A bored-looking Madsen sat behind the wheel, turned and stared as they drew near.

Brix brought the car to a stop by the kerb, waved at him to move on. The two of them watched him scratch his head then drive off down the road.

Her keen and glittering eyes were on the little cottage. Brix could see what she was looking at so closely. Through the window a man and a woman, standing. He was lifting a baby by the arms,
kissing the child held between them. Then an embrace.

A family of three. Close. Content. A happy picture.

‘We’ve got a few minutes. If you want to go in and see them . . .’

‘Plenty of time for that later,’ she said, shaking her head.

Brix folded his long arms.

‘Sarah. They’re the only reason you came back. Aren’t they?’

Lund nodded.

‘Mostly, Lennart. But at the risk of repeating myself . . .’

She pointed through the windscreen at the city spreading out before them.

‘Can we go to the Politigården now? Like I said?’

‘As with Hewson’s first Killing novel it both illuminates and expands on the series, as well as being equally compelling’

Choice

‘British author David Hewson is making a brilliant job of bringing the acclaimed Danish TV crime drama
The Killing
to the literary market place’

Lancashire Evening Post

Praise for
The Killing

‘A very fine novel, which is more of a re-imagining of the original story than a carbon copy – and with the bonus of a brand new twist to the ending’

Daily Mail

‘David Hewson’s literary translation is far more than a cheap tie-in . . . the book allows the characters more room to breathe . . . Hewson’s greatest
achievement is that it’s compelling reading’

Observer

‘Not just a novelisation. Hewson is a highly regarded crime writer in his own right; he spent a lot of time with the creators of the original to ensure that he did not
offend its spirit and mood, and he has provided his own, different solution to the central murder mystery’

Marcel Berlins,
The Times

‘A fast-paced crime novel that’s five-star from start to finish’

Irish Examiner

‘As gripping as the TV series.

It will keep you pinned to the very last page’

Jens Lapidus

The Killing

The Killing II

Nic Costa series

A Season for the Dead

The Villa of Mysteries

The Sacred Cut

The Lizard’s Bite

The Seventh Sacrament

The Garden of Evil

Dante’s Numbers

The Blue Demon

The Fallen Angel

Carnival for the Dead

Other titles

The Promised Land

The Cemetery of Secrets

(previously published as
Lucifer’s Shadow
)

Death in Seville

(previously published as
Semana Santa
)

I’m indebted to Søren Sveistrup, the creator of the series, and my editor Trisha Jackson for their insights and support. Once again this is an adaptation of the TV
original story, not a scene-by-scene copy. The changes along the way are mine alone.

David Hewson

First published 2014 by Macmillan

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Copyright © David Hewson 2014

Based on Søren Sveistrup’s
Forbrydelsen III
(
The Killing season 3
) – an original Danish Broadcasting Corporation TV series co-written by
Torleif Hoppe, Michael W. Horsten

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