Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
The Killing 2
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
99p for the first 3 months
The Killing 2
Buy Now for £16.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
Summary
Thirty nine steps rose from the busy road of Tuborgvej into Mindelunden, with its quiet graves and abiding bitter memories. Lennart Brix, head of the Copenhagen homicide team, felt he’d been walking those 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 and 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 and skin visible where the frenzied blade had stabbed at her.
Her face was bruised and dirty. Blood poured from her nostrils, had dried down each side of her mouth, like makeup on a tragic clown…
Critic reviews
“As gripping as the TV series. It will keep you pinned to very last page” (Jens Lapidus)
”David Hewson has achieved the seemingly impossible . . . just as gripping as the television serial . . . this book is worth reading” (The Literary Review)
”A novel in the hugely experienced hands of David Hewson that defies expectation. Hewson’s style is tight, lean, almost like a film script” (Express)
”Clear, clipped prose is beautifully up to the task, as is his forensic attention to the original's details . . . And the ending leaves a very different, but no less thought-provoking taste” (Mirror)
”David Hewson should be commended for writing such a page-turner of a book . . . The Killing has enough twists and turns to satisfy not only any avid follower of the series but also readers that are coming to it first time around” (www.shotsmag.co.uk)
More from the same
What listeners say about The Killing 2
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
- jay
- 16-12-16
The Killing 2
Really enjoyed listening to this again .A very well constructed story with clear empathic narration
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Louise
- 09-07-13
Gripping
Would you consider the audio edition of The Killing 2 to be better than the print version?
Yes because I could get things done whilst listening to it and can listen anytime.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Sara Lund is so well written as are all the characters but Thomas the politician could have a book to himself his character I so alive.
What does Christian Rodska bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
His characterisation and vocals make the book so easy to listen to and draw you in, you forget that he's male as he reads.
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Some parts made me laugh out loud they were so well written / orated.
Any additional comments?
More David Hewson please.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Susie S
- 03-07-13
I enjoyed this as much as The Killing 1
This did a great job of keeping me occupied on some long journeys. The narrator is particularly good, although I still have a problem with the pronunciation of a few place names etc., once heard a few times, they sink in! Will there be another in the series? I hope so.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Venetia
- 03-02-13
An ok read
I really enjoyed the Killing but was a little disappointed with the sequel. I felt it was a bit bitty in parts and also that it was too long, however, the story kept me listening and I don't regret buying it. However, I won't buy the next one.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- mywallmum
- 26-03-14
good read
not as good as the first but good all the same, kinda knew where this was going in the whodunnit stakes, but i would read it again
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Catherine
- 04-07-13
Good, but confusing
I was in two minds about this book because I found the performance of the reader during the first one very difficult to enjoy. I had the same problems with this one, but with the additional downside that the ending was confusing, which really affected my opinion of the whole thing.
The reader has an odd way of making everything sound very panicky, and often shouts at times when it doesn't seem appropriate. There aren't sufficient breaks between scene changes, which means that it can often be difficult to follow what is happening. However the most annoying feature of the reader is his use of a variety of weird British regional accents, which are totally inappropriate and seemingly random. It completely breaks the suspension of disbelief when you are asked to believe that in one part of Denmark, or in rural Sweden, everyone you meet has a different accent, and that they all sound like places in the UK.
The voice he used for the main politician character was very irritating, rather like a bad impression of Churchill. The same voice was used for a couple of other characters too, which was confusing.
The story was well written, with plenty of interesting twists and turns, and it was that which kept me listening. In the end though, I couldn't work out exactly what had happened, and who had actually been responsible for the series of murders the story was about. Perhaps I missed something along the way, but I didn't feel that it was at all clear.
Overall it was very good value as it was long and there was plenty to keep me going and interest me, but it wasn't anywhere near the best book I've listened to in the last while, and not as good as the first one in the series.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- c
- 15-05-13
Gripping
Excellent audio book, good flowing story and varied narration. Final playing out of who done it was a little quick and disjointed but got there.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Caroline
- 18-11-13
GREAT read
If you could sum up The Killing 2 in three words, what would they be?
Needed to Concentrate.Had to really listen as so many unfamiliar Danish names / characters and complex story, but well worth the effort.
What did you like best about this story?
Depth of characters, interesting plot. The old story-Good trying to overcome evil, and power corrupts.
What does Christian Rodska bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
Excellent narration. Great regional (British) Accents really helped distinguish between characters. Want to look up what else he has narrated.
Any additional comments?
Disappointed it is over.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Jill
- 18-01-13
Kept me guessing till the end
This is a hefty listen, it's long and as the plot gathers pace you are carried along from one suspect to another, with a few mystifying subplots thrown in for good measure. Because of this complexity it is perhaps a book best listened to without too many long breaks in between and at times when you can concentrate a bit on the twists and turns.
Having said that I found it a very satisfying book that kept me guessing right until the end (I hadn't seen the tv series). David Hewson paces the book extremely well and Christian Rodska reads beautifully with great characterisation. I highly recommend!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
9 people found this helpful
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance1 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Maggie
- 24-03-14
accents
Would you listen to The Killing 2 again? Why?
no very poor accents
Who was your favorite character and why?
good selection of characters
Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Christian Rodska?
anyone who didn't sound like a Geordie in Scandinavia
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
no
Any additional comments?
only problem was the islanders accents would have been more at home in the north east of England
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!