The Killing by David Hewson

By David Hewson

A page-turning adaptation of the 1st season of the unique Danish tv series The Killing, from the writer of the Detective Nic Costa series

Through the darkish wooden the place the useless timber supply no guard Nanna Birk Larsen runs . . . there's a brilliant monocular eye that follows, like a hunter after a wounded deer. It strikes in a gradual imminent zigzag, marching in the course of the Pineseskoven desert, during the Pentecost wooded area. the nippiness water, the terror, his presence no longer thus far away . . . there's one torchlight on her now, the one blazing eye. And it's here.

Sarah Lund is asking ahead to her final day as a detective with the Copenhagen Police division prior to relocating to Sweden. yet every little thing adjustments whilst 19-year-old scholar Nanna Birk Larsen is located raped and brutally murdered within the woods outdoor the town. Lund's plans to relocate are wear carry as she leads the research besides fellow detective Jan Meyer. whereas Nanna's relatives struggles to deal with their loss, neighborhood flesh presser Troels Hartmann is in the midst of an election crusade to turn into the hot mayor of Copenhagen. while hyperlinks among urban corridor and the homicide unexpectedly come to gentle, the case takes a completely varied flip. Over the direction of 20 days, suspect upon suspect emerges as violence and political intrigue forged their shadows over the quest for the killer.

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Neumeyer, Juvenile Delinquency in Modern Society, Second Edition, New York: Van Nostrand, 1955, p. 152 ; James F. , "Differential Association as a Hypothesis: Problems of Empirical Testing", Social Problems,8 (Summer, 1960), pp. 14-25; Trice, op. ; S. Kirson Weinberg, "Theories of Criminality and Problems of Prediction", Journal ofCriminal Law and Criminology, 45 (November-December, 1954), pp. 412--429. 21 See the statement on p. 19, above. 22 Op. , p. 182. "23 Such statements are not so much errors in interpretation of the differential association statement as they are errors regarding the role of theory, hypotheses and facts in scientific research.

10 A further complication in this regard arises because some crimes become known to the police only if a victim complains, while other offences become known by direct observation on the part of the police. Cases of drunken driving, for example, usually get into police records only if observed by a policeman, while cases of burglary usually become known to the police as a result of a report by the victim. The ratio of offences committed to offences known probably is greater for those offences that get into police records only when observed by the police than for those which get into the reports as a result of complaints by victims.

63--65. 36 INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY and sometimes as "forgery," making it impossible to get a close estimate of the amount of variation in time of anyone of these offences. 12 Fifth, when comparisons are made, the mere number of crimes known to the police is not sufficient. What is needed is statements of rates-the number of crimes in proportion to the number of population or in proportion to some other base. But determination of this base is sometimes almost as difficult as determination of the crime ratio itself.

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