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Roseanna (Paperback)
Maj Sjoewall, Per Wahloeoe; Introduction by Henning Mankell
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The first book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the
1960s - the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime
writing. Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original
Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired the writings of Stieg
Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo. Written in the 1960s, 10
books completed in 10 years, they are the work of Maj Sjoewall and
Per Wahloeoe - a husband and wife team from Sweden. They follow the
fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn
character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction;
without his creation Ian Rankin's John Rebus or Henning Mankell's
Kurt Wallander may never have been conceived. The novels can be
read separately, but are best read in chronological order, so the
reader can follow the characters' development and get drawn into
the series as a whole. 'Roseanna' begins on a July afternoon, the
body of a young woman is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake
Vattern. Three months later, all that Police Inspector Martin Beck
knows is that her name is Roseanna, that she came from Lincoln,
Nebraska, and that she could have been strangled by any one of
eighty-five people. With its authentically rendered settings and
vividly realized characters, and its command over the intricately
woven details of police detection, 'Roseanna' is a masterpiece of
suspense and sadness.
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After the Fire (Paperback)
Henning Mankell; Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he
retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an
island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if
necessary. He lives a quiet life. Until he wakes up one night to
find his house on fire. Fredrik escapes just in time, wearing two
left-footed wellies, as neighbouring islanders arrive to help douse
the flames. All that remains in the morning is a stinking ruin and
evidence of arson. The house that has been in his family for
generations and all his worldly belongings are gone. He cannot
think who would do such a thing, or why. Without a suspect, the
police begin to think he started the fire himself. Tackling love,
loss and loneliness, After the Fire is Henning Mankell's compelling
last novel.
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Quicksand (Paperback)
Henning Mankell; Translated by Laurie Thompson, Marlaine Delargy
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In January 2014 Henning Mankell was informed that he had cancer.
However, Quicksand is not a book about death, but about what it
means to be human. Mankell writes about love and jealousy, courage
and fear, about what it is like to live with a fatal illness. This
book is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago chose the
very darkest places for their fascinating pictures. And about the
dreadful troll that we are trying to lock away inside the bedrock
of a Swedish mountain for the next 100,000 years. It is a book
about how humanity has lived and continues to live, and about how
Henning lived his own life. And, not least, about the great zest
for life, which came back when he managed to drag himself out of
the quicksand that threatened to suck him down into the abyss.
The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by
the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjowall and Per
Wahloo, finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler.
On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's
beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues Beck begins an investigation
not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim
was. Three months later, all Beck knows is that her name was
Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by any one of
eighty-five people on a cruise. As the melancholic Beck narrows the
list of suspects, he is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the
victim, a free-spirited traveler with a penchant for casual sex,
and to the psychopathology of a murderer with a
distinctive--indeed, terrifying--sense of propriety..
Discover the first novel in the addictive Wallander series.
'Wallander is among the very best fictional crimebusters' Daily
Telegraph One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander
responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches
the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has
been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive
beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond
reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the
perpetrators may have been foreign. When this is leaked to the
press, it unleashes a tide of racism. Wallander's life is a
shambles. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to
him, and even his ageing father barely tolerates him. He works
tirelessly, eats badly, and drinks his nights away. But now
Wallander must forget his troubles and throw himself into a battle
against time and against mounting racial hatred. 'Mankell is one of
the most ingenious crime writers around. Highly recommended'
Observer 'Mankell is in the first division of crime writing' The
Times
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An Event in Autumn (Paperback)
Henning Mankell; Translated by Laurie Thompson
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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, only for him to uncover something unexpected
in the garden - the skeleton of a middle-aged woman. As police
officers comb the property, Wallander attempts to get his new life
back on course by finding the woman's killer with the aid of his
daughter, Linda. But when another discovery is made in the garden,
Wallander is forced to delve further back into the area's past. A
treat for fans and new readers alike, this is a never before
published Kurt Wallander novella
Sweden, winter, 1991. 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 expensive suits, shot dead.
The dead men were criminals, victims of what seems to have been a
gangland hit. But what appears to be an open-and-shut case soon
takes on a far more sinister aspect. 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 be one step behind the shadowy figures he
pursues, only Wallander's obstinate desire to see that justice is
done brings the truth to light.
Four nuns and a fifth woman are killed in a savage night-time
attack in Africa. A year later, Inspector Kurt Wallander
investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher and
discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body
impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then, another man is
reported missing. Once again Wallander's life is put on hold as he
and his team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of
vicious murders. Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Sidetracked.
Midsummer approaches, and Inspector Kurt Wallander prepares for a
holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward
daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. But his
restful summer plans are thrown into disarray when a teenage girl
commits suicide before his eyes, and a former minister of justice
is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless
murders. Wallander's desperate hunt for the girl's identity and his
furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him
and those he loves most into mortal danger. WINNER OF THE CRIME
WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER
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Italian Shoes (Paperback)
Henning Mankell; Translated by Laurie Thompson
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Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in
self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly
twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to
cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the
depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him
across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him. The figure
approaching in the freezing cold is Harriet, the only woman he has
ever loved, the woman he abandoned in order to go and study in
America forty years earlier. She has sought him out in the hope
that he will honour a promise made many years ago. Now in the late
stages of a terminal illness, she wants to visit a small lake in
northern Sweden, a place Welin's father took him once as a boy. He
upholds his pledge and drives her to this beautiful pool hidden
deep in the forest. On the journey through the desolate
snow-covered landscape, Welin reflects on his impoverished
childhood and the woman he later left behind. However, once there
Welin discovers that Harriet has left the biggest surprise until
last. If you enjoyed Italian Shoes, the new Henning Mankell novel
featuring Fredrik Welin, After the Fire, is available now.
In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate
agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears.
There is no explanation and no motive. Inspector Wallander and his
team are called in to investigate. As Inspector Wallander is
introduced to this missing person's case he has a gut feeling that
the victim will never be found alive, but he has no idea how far he
will have to go in search of the killer. In South Africa, Nelson
Mandela has made his long walk to freedom, setting in train the
country's painful journey towards the end of the apartheid.
Wallander and his colleagues find themselves caught up in a complex
web involving renegade members of South Africa's secret service and
a former KGB agent, all of whom are set upon halting Mandela's rise
to power. Faced with an increasingly globalised world in which
international terrorism knows no national borders, Wallander must
prevent a hideous crime that means to dam the tide of history.
Spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man
in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind
to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance seeks
Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious circumstances in
which his father has died, Kurt doesn't want to know. But when his
former friend turns up dead, shot three times, Wallander realises
that he was wrong not to listen. Against his better judgment, he
returns to work to head what may now have become a double murder
case. An enigmatic big-business tycoon seems to be the common
denominator in the two deaths. But while Wallander is on the trail
of the killer, somebody is on the trail of Wallander, and closing
in fast... Over 35 million copies of the Kurt Wallander series sold
worldwide.
Nelson Mandela is dead and his dream of a rainbow nation in South
Africa is fading. Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the
white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are
they prepared to go to survive as a people? Kajsa Norman's book
traces the war for control of South Africa, its people, and its
history, over a series of December 16ths, from the Battle of Blood
River in 1838 to its commemoration in 2011. Weaving between the
past and the present, the book highlights how years of fear,
nationalism, and social engineering have left the modern Afrikaner
struggling for identity and relevance. Norman spends time with
residents of the breakaway republic of Orania, where a thousand
Afrikaners are working to construct a white-African utopia. Citing
their desire to preserve their language and traditions, they have
sequestered themselves in an isolated part of the arid Karoo
region. Here, they can still dictate the rules and create a
homeland with its own flag, currency and ideology. For a Europe
that faces growing nationalism, their story is more relevant than
ever. How do people react when they believe their cultural identity
is under threat?Bridge Over Blood River's haunting and subversive
evocation of South Africa's racial politics provides some
unsettling answers.
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After the Fire (Paperback)
Henning Mankell; Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WALLANDER MYSTERIES REVENGE CAN TAKE MORE
THAN A LIFETIME In a sleepy hamlet in north Sweden, the local
police make a chilling discovery; nineteen people have been
brutally slaughtered. It is a crime unprecedented in Sweden's
history and the police are under incredible pressure to solve the
killings. When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she
realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples
involved and decides to investigate. When the police make a hasty
arrest it is left to her to investigate the source of a nineteenth
century diary and red silk ribbon found near the crime scene. What
she will uncover leads her into an international web of corruption
and a story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years.
The Man from Beijing is a gripping political thriller and a
compelling detective story from a writer at the height of his
powers.
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
the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a
steamship headed for Australia. Jumping ship at the African port of
Lourenco Marques, Hanna decides to begin her life afresh. Stumbling
across what she believes to be a down-at-heel hotel, Hanna becomes
embroiled in a sequence of events that lead to her inheriting the
most successful brothel in town. Uncomfortable with the attitudes
of the white settlers, Hanna is determined to befriend the
prostitutes working for her, and change life in the town for the
better, but the distrust between blacks and whites, and the shadow
of colonialism, lead to tragedy and murder.
First published in Sweden in 1994, Mankell's terrific fourth Kurt
Wallender mystery opens with the kind of startling image typical of
this internationally bestselling series (Firewall, etc.): a lawyer,
driving home through the fog, stops after he sees "a human-sized
effigy" propped on a chair in the middle of a deserted highway.
Gustaf Torstensson gets out of the car to investigate, is hit from
behind and was "dead before his body hit the damp asphalt." The
police accept the assailant's claim that it was an accident, but
when Torstensson's son, Sten, is shot dead just two weeks later,
the brooding Wallender, who's on sick leave and vowing to retire
from the Ystad police force, decides to pursue the killer and
resume his career. The chief suspecta powerful, globe-trotting
Swedish businessman who's the smiling man of the titleleads
Wallender on an exquisitely plotted search for motive and evidence.
Dark and moody, this is crime fiction of the highest order. Reed
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Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his
apartment in Stockholm. Then, one day he fails to come home.
Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved but Hakan's son
is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months earlier Hakan was
eager to talk to Kurt about a controversial incident from his past.
Could this be connected to his disappearance? When Hakan's wife
also goes missing, Wallander is determined to uncover the truth but
the investigation will force him to look back over his own past, as
he comes to the unsettling realisation that even those we love the
most can remain strangers to us...
The leader of a religious cult in Guyana instigates a mass suicide.
He succeeds in killing himself and his whole flock of worshippers,
save one. In a wood outside Ystad, the police make an horrific
discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude
of prayer. A Bible lies at the victim's side, handwritten
corrections and amendments on every page. A string of incidents,
including attacks on domestic animals, has been taking place and
Inspector Wallander fears that these events could be the prelude to
attacks on humans on a much greater scale. Meanwhile Linda
Wallander, preparing to join the Ystad police force, arrives at the
station. 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 group of extremists bent on
punishing the world's sinners.
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