Who killed Nanna Birk Larsen? That was the question on many lips when, in 2011, the BAFTA winning first series of The Killing was aired on British television. The subsequent column inches, not least about a certain black & white Faroe Island jumper, & critical success it garnered were partly a legacy of the previous year ...

Who killed Nanna Birk Larsen? That was the question on many lips when, in 2011, the BAFTA winning first series of The Killing was aired on British television. The subsequent column inches, not least about a certain black & white Faroe Island jumper, & critical success it garnered were partly a legacy of the previous year’s great success, The Wire, which had shown the appetite for a sophisticated investigation of the relationship between crime & politics. Acclaimed crime writer David Hewson has not, in this novelised version of the series, given us just another hack work spin-off, but a superb example of engrossing, literary detective fiction, so well written that it is now being translated & readied for publication in Danish. Instead of just giving us a verbatim transcript of the subtitles to the tv series, Hewson took the trouble to travel to Copenhagen & consult with Søren Sveistrup, the series script writer. What has emerged is a novel which has its own integrity & its own perspective, for Hewson takes on the persona of a witness to the events, just as the television viewer is. Where the television series at times seemed in danger of making Copenhagen seem dreary, Hewson has retained the gloomy Scandi atmosphere we all know & love, & given the novel’s ending an extra twist rather than an insulting anti-climax or an easy moral. Anyone who appreciates clever detective fiction & has not seen the series will find this riveting, while those who are already fans of the television series will be mesmerised by Hewson’s dynamic style & alternative ending. ...

Thirty nine steps rose from the busy road of Tuborgvej into Mindelunden, with its quiet graves & abiding bitter memories. Lennart Brix, head of the Copenhagen homicide team, felt he`d been walking them most of his life. Beneath the entrance arch, sheltering from the icy rain, he couldn`t help but recall that first visit almost fifty years before. A five-year-old boy, clutching the hand of his father, barely able to imagine what he was about see.. . The bark of a dog broke his reverie. Brix looked at the forensic officers, white bunny suits, mob hats, marching grim-faced down the rows of graves, towards the space in the little wood where the rest of the team was gathering.. . Three gnarled stakes, replicas now, with the originals in the Frihedsmuseet. A woman was tied to the centre pole, hands behind her back, bound with heavy rope round her torso. Blonde hair soaked with rain & worse, head down, chin on chest, crouched awkwardly on her knees. A gaping wound at her neck like a sick second smile. She wore a blue dressing gown slashed in places all the way to the waist, flesh & skin visible where the frenzied blade had stabbed at her. Her face was bruised & dirty. Blood poured from her nostrils, had dried down each side of her mouth, like makeup on a tragic clown.. . It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. 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 -- a time its countrymen would wish to forget. Brix knows that Lund is the one person he can rely on to discover the truth. Reluctantly she returns to Copenhagen & becomes intrigued with the facts surrounding the case. As more bodies are found, Lund comes to see a pattern & she realises that the identity of the killer will be known once the truth behind a more recent wartime mission is finally revealed.. . ...

`I killed Joe once, in a manner of speaking. But not twice. Not in the way you mean.` Llew Jones wanted to see the States & write about the experience. Then he met Joe Bosco, a butterfly salesman as charismatic as he is infuriating, & they were soon hurtling across 1980s America together, caught up in an adventure that got way, way out of control. Now Llew is in jail, his friend is gone, & he has to give his side of the story if he`s ever going to get free... Part existential road trip, part neo-gothic thriller, part morality tale, The Killing of Butterfly Joe by Rhidian Brook is a dazzling & propulsive novel full of characters you`ll never forget. An epic story of friendship, desire, & participating in the Great American Dream
- `the one that leads from rags to riches via pitches`
- whatever the consequences.

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`I love Robert Thorogood`s writing`
- Peter James An original story from the creator & writer of the hit BBC One TV series, Death
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Despite being from opposite sides of the world, Ruslan & Sarah are brought together in the aftermath of the tsunami. Sarah is sailing with her family when the giant wave hits their boat, flinging the family apart. Her mother is killed, & alone with her younger brother, Sarah begins to search for their missing father. Ruslan`s father, a mechanic, was supposed to have been working on a ship when the tsunami struck, but all is not as it seems. It turns out that he had been using the job as a cover to travel to the rebel area of Bergang. In order to find his father, Ruslan must therefore undergo a dangerous journey through rebel territory. In the midst of widespread destruction, Sarah & Ruslan`s paths cross, & their lives are changed forever. ...

Emily`s dad is accused of murdering a teenage girl in the woods behind her house, the place she played in as a child. She`s sure he`s innocent, but what did happen? Determined to find out
- & afraid of what she might discover
- Emily seeks out the boyfriend of the murdered girl. He also knows these woods. Maybe they could help each other. But Damon Hillary has his own secrets about the dangerous games that are being played in the dark.

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The Kimberley region in northern Western Australia, between the border with Northern Territory & Broome, including the Great Northern Highway, described by Moon Adventure Publication in a spiral-bound guide slightly larger than A5, illustrated with numerous maps. An introductory section to the area, covering its history & fauna/flora, is followed by advice on planning & preparation. The region is then described in seven chapters: Around Halls Creek, Eastern Kimberley, Mitchell Plateau & Northern Kimberley, Gibb River Road, East along the King Leopold Ranges. Derby to Fitzroy Crossing, plus Broome & its Surrounds. Each chapter is accompanied by map (s) of its interesting area (s), showing the road network including 4WD tracks with symbols indicating local facilities. Where useful, accompanying text provides GPS coordinates for road junctions, camping grounds & recreational sites, etc. Descriptions of locations include advice on recreational possibilities, accommodation, etc, & include useful website addresses and/or contact details for 4WD tours, recreational sites/providers, accommodation, etc. The index lists both locations & accommodation, sites for recreational pursuits, etc. ...

The Kimberley, the northernmost part of Western Australia, on a waterproof & tear-resistant map from Hema with highlighting for the Savannah Way & an index showing locations with their GPS coordinates, plus on the reverse a map of the Gibb River Road between Derby & Kununurra with descriptions of 32 points of interest, a table of facilities in the national parks, etc. On one side is a map at 1:1, 000, 000 of the Kimberley area of Western Australia, extending south to approx. 19 ...

The Kimberley, the northernmost part of Western Australia, on a waterproof & tear-resistant map from Hema with highlighting for the Savannah Way, an index showing locations with their GPS coordinates, plus on the reverse enlargements for the Gibb River Road, Dampier Peninsula, Purnululu National Park, & the Ngamoowalen Conservarion Park area. On one side is a map at 1:1, 000, 000 of the Kimberley area of Western Australia, extending south to approx. 19°45’ & east just beyond the border with Northern Territory. Topography is well presented by relief shading & graphics for swamps, salt flats, deserts, etc, plus plenty of names of mountain ranges, peaks, etc. National parks & other protected areas are prominently highlighted & the map also shows the boundaries of various types of Aboriginal Lands & restricted entry zones. Presentation of roads & tracks indicates sealed or unsealed roads, tracks are graded according to difficulty, & the map highlights the course of the Savannah Way from the NT/WA border to Broome plus its continuation southwards along the Great Northern Highway. A wide range of symbols indicate various services & facilities including fuel & drinking water supplies, camping & other overnight accommodation, vehicle repairs, etc. For many locations the map also provides a phone number for the main tourist facility (accommodation, visitors’ centre, a store, etc). Many locations are annotated with brief notes. The map has latitude & longitude lines at 30’ intervals plus & index listing locations with their GPS coordinates. On the reverse, the alternative route from Derby to Kununurra along the Gibb River Road is shown in more detail at 1:900, 000 with 29 locations cross-referenced to their descriptions. Three more panels show the Dampier Peninsula (1:350, 000), Purnululu NP (1:200, 000), plus the Ngamoowalen Conservation Park & the surrounding area between Kununurra & Wyndham (1:300, 000). The title also

Includes:: a table of facilities in the region’s national parks, a list of useful contact details, plus general notes about the whole region. To see other titles in Hema’s series of detailed regional road maps of Australia please click on the series.

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