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Henning Mankell
Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea, to Riga in Latvia, where he is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats, and lies. Doomed always to…
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When Louise Cantor finds her 28-year-old son dead in his apartment, everything indicates it was a suicide. Louise, however, refuses to accept this. She and her ex-husband set out to…
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Filling in the missing pieces of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series, The Pyramid tells the story of Wallander’s beginnings through five gripping short mysteries.
Internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Mankell delivers a timely and riveting thriller that will have readers on the edge their seats until the very end.
The invaluable Memory Book Project gives those dying of AIDS in Africa an opportunity to record their lives in words and pictures for the children they leave behind. Excerpts from…
When his daughter’s future father-in-law goes missing in a forest near Stockholm, brilliant detective Kurt Wallander takes matters in his own hands and gets results. But his findings hint at…
Longlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Award.
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In Depths, Mankell confirms his status as a writer deserving acclaim beyond the crime genre. By delving deep into the male psyche, he has produced a novel at once tense…
A man stops at an ATM and suddenly falls dead to the ground. A blackout cuts power to a large swath of southern Sweden. When a serviceman arrives at the…
Already an international bestseller, Before the Frost inaugurates Mankell’s new mystery series about Linda Wallander, daughter of Inspector Kurt Wallander, and also features Stefan Lindman of The Return of the…
Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, The Eye of the Leopard draws on bestselling author Mankell’s deep understanding of the two worlds he has inhabited for more than 20…
A Treacherous Paradise sees Henning Mankell turn his talents for writing gripping thrillers to a world where power and powerlessness meet and passion is a dangerous commodity. Hanna Lundmark escapes…
On the rooftop of a theater in an African port, Nelio, a ten-year-old boy–a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer and a prophet and possessed of a…
The first three novels in Henning Manning’s Kurt Wallander series are now available in a trade paperback set.
Mystery fans across America are discovering the international bestseller Henning Mankell and…
Originally published in Swedish as Vindens son.
In the late 1950s, fifteen-year-old Joel is anxious to leave his remote hometown in northern Sweden and sail to far-off places with his father, a former sailor, but the arrival…
On an icy night in Northern Sweden Joel is drawn outside to haunt the streets. He finds the night-time activity of his stolid town mesmerising in its unexpectedness and variety…
On Midsummer’s Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in 18th-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Wallander’s most trusted colleagues–someone whose help he hoped to…
Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, rich and poor, The Eye of the Leopard is a stunning novel from a modern master.
Originally published in Sweden as Kvicksand by Leopard feorlag, Stockholm, in 2014 –Title page verso.
WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR SIDETRACKED Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has…
Mankell confirms his status as a writer deserving acclaim beyond the crime genre. By delving deep into the male psyche, he produces a novel as tense and compelling in every…
The second book in the popular series takes Inspector Kurt Wallander to Riga, Latvia, to investigate the murder of two Eastern European criminals. There he finds himself plunged into an…
In an Algerian convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are found with their throats slit. In Sweden, a birdwatcher is skewered to death in a pit of carefully…
Inspector Kurt Wallander’s look into the execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife leads to an investigation of international scope and harrowing consequences, involving a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela.
In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, a young housewife, a pillar of the Methodist church, disappears and Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. But he…
Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher he…
Some cases aren’t as cold as you’d think Kurt Wallander’s life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is accepted…
From the internationally bestselling mystery writer comes a crime novel featuring the tenacious, levelheaded, opera-loving detective, Inspector Kurt Wallander. An especially satisfying crime novel. – The Wall Street Journal.
The long-awaited fourth mystery in the bestselling Kurt Wallander series finds the detective deep in crisis after killing a man in the line of duty. Vowing to quit the police…
Showing all the hallmarks of her father - the maverick approach, the flaring temper - she becomes involved in the case and in the process is forced to confront a…
The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case, except that there is no obvious suspect. Wallander follows a lead on a determined stalker. But when his…
In Sweden, two victims of torture and execution turn up in a life raft. With no witnesses, motives, or crime scene, Detective Wallander is uncertain he can solve the case…
The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough…
A disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander is thrown back into the fray when he becomes both hunter and hunted in this adventure from the pen of Sweden’s master of crime and…
At once a gripping mystery in the classic detective tradition and an incisive commentary on contemporary society, Faceless Killers introduces Swedish Inspector Kurt Wallander, a cop whose personal life is…
Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in…
In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered. A year later in Sweden, two baffling murders lead Inspector Kurt Wallander to investigate the unsolved…
On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt…
From the prizewinning master of atmosphere ( The Boston Globe ) and the creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallender mystery series comes the surprising and affecting story of a man…
Inspector Kurt Wallander begins to suspect that there is a connection between a series of crimes tormenting Sweden – the brutal murder of a taxi driver by two teenage girls…
Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander is investigating the disappearance of a childhood friend when her case dovetails with her fathers. Together, they search for a religious fanatic…
Henning Mankell, Stephen T. Murray (trans.)
One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. But now Wallander must forget his troubles and throw himself into a…
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Joel Gustafson has a lot to consider. His birthday is next month. He’ll be fifteen: he’ll be allowed to ride a moped, and he’ll no longer need to sneak into…