David Hewson's The Killing III is the novelization of the third
series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing. Detective
Inspector for homicide, Sarah Lund, is contacted by old flame
Mathias Borch from National Intelligence. Borch fears that what
first appeared to be a random killing at the docks is the
beginning of an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Troels
Hartmann. The murder draws attention towards the shipping and oil
giant, Zeeland, run by billionaire Robert Zeuthen. When
Zeuthen's 9-year-old daughter, Emilie, is kidnapped the
investigation takes on a different dimension as it soon becomes
clear that her disappearance is linked to the murder of a young
girl in Jutland some years earlier. Hartmann is in the middle of
an election campaign, made all the more turbulent because of
the mounting financial crisis. He needs Zeeland's backing.