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Henning Mankell
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…
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Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, rich and poor, The Eye of the Leopard is a stunning novel from a modern master.
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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…
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.
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…
Stefan Lindman, a young police officer on extended sick leave, hears about the murder of his former colleague and decides to investigate it himself. Lindman’s inquiry becomes increasingly complex and…
Originally published in Swedish as Vindens son.
Mankell’s tenacious sleuth, Inspector Kurt Wallander, returns to investigate a horrific crime in his Scandinavian homeland that soon involves him with a troubled apartheid-era South Africa, in the eagerly awaited…
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…
The Man Who Smiled is a fiction.
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…
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…
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…
Longlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Award.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
Originally published in Sweden as Kvicksand by Leopard feorlag, Stockholm, in 2014 –Title page verso.
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.
A poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan starts an unlikely writing group that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Gripping suspense combines with probing social commentary in this Kurt Wallander mystery.
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…
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…
