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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
Stopping to use a cash machine one evening, a man falls to the
ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage
girls who demonstrate a complete lack of remorse. One girl escapes
police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards, a
blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the
malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery...
Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked -
somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team,
lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his
role as a detective. And somehow these criminals seem always to
know the police's next move.
It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act
out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being
watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of
Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is it the same
killer, and what could the connection be? In this investigation
Wallander is always, tantalisingly, one step behind.
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
** The inspiration for the NETFLIX original series Young Wallander
- out now ** When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless
Killers, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with
his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely
acknowledged him; he ate badly and drank alone at night. The
Pyramid chronicles the events that led him to such a place. We see
him in the early years, doing hours on the beat whilst trying to
solve a murder off-duty; witness the beginnings of his fragile
relationship with Mona, the woman he has his heart set on marrying;
and learn the reason behind his difficulties with his father. These
thrilling tales provide a fascinating insight into Wallander's
character, from the stabbing of a neighbour in 1969 to a light
aircraft accident in 1989, every story is a vital piece of the
Wallander series, showing Mankell at the top of his game. Featuring
an introduction from the author, The Pyramid is an essential read
for all fans of Kurt Wallander.
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.
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.
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 two obsessions: one is the
tango and the other is a conviction that he is being hunted,
constantly pursued by 'demons'. He has no close friends, no close
neighbours, and by the time his body is eventually found, Molin is
almost unrecognisable. Lindman, a police officer on extended sick
leave, hears of the death of his former colleague and, to take his
mind off his own problems, decides to involve himself in the case.
What he discovers, to his horror and disbelief, is a network of
evil almost unimaginable in this remote district, and one which
seems impossible to link to Molin's death.
Now that he's getting older, Joel Gustafson has a lot to consider.
His birthday is next month. He'll be fifteen, and he can't stop
thinking about the new liberties that come with being fifteen:
he'll be allowed to ride a moped, and he'll no longer need to sneak
into the cinema to see an adults-only film. And maybe his father
will finally agree to leave their small Swedish town and the two of
them will become sailors--something Joel has always dreamed of.
Joel's life takes a turn, but nothing like he had anticipated. Joel
and his father are unexpectedly faced with an aspect of their past
and emotional wounds resurface. Can their relationship survive this
complex situation, and the very different ways in which they
respond?
As it has in the past, the first snow of the year signifies to Joel
Gustafson his very own New Year's Eve. So when the snow begins to
fall on a cold November day, Joel gets busy making
resolutions--three to be exact. Resolution #1: Live to be at least
a hundred. He realizes that this will require toughening himself up
by testing his physical limits. Resolution #2: Set his eyes on the
sea for the first time. To do this, Joel knows he needs to help
sort out his father Samuel's problems and get him back to the life
he left behind--being a sailor at sea. Resolution #3: See a naked
lady. At almost fourteen, Joel feels he needs to see the
world--including females--in an entirely different light.
As the winter days pass, life becomes ever more complicated, but
Joel is determined to keep his resolutions--for his father, for
himself, and for their future.
"When the Snow Fell" follows Joel's journey as he realizes along
the way that it will require determination, strength, and valor in
order to truly become a young man.
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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