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Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser.
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 b ...Show more
Faceless Killers (Wallander #1) by Henning Mankell
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Kurt Wallander
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Sidetracked 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 hi ...Show more
Firewall by Henning Mankell
Category: Fiction
Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi dirver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. So ...Show more
Firewall (Kurt Wallander #8) by Henning Mankell; Ebba Segerberg (Translator)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser.
After a death, a brutal murder and a blackout which covers half the country, Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective.
Firewall (Wallander #8) by Henning Mankell
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A girl held in police custody escapes and disappears without a trace. An unexpected blackout leaves half the country in darkness and when an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he make ...Show more
I Die, But the Memory Lives on : A personal reflection on AIDS by Henning Mankell
Category: Culture
Henning Mankell is not a public figure in the way that politicians are, nor does he court publicity for himself, but he is one of the most successful authors of our time and has devoted his recent years to work with Aids charities. In I Die, but the memory Lives on, this master storyteller has written a ...Show more
Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell (tr from Swedish Laurie Thompson))
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 ...Show more
Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 stru ...Show more
KENNEDY'S BRAIN by HENNING MANKELL
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
From internationally bestselling author Henning Mankell comes a gripping mystery and a depiction of every parent's worst nightmare. When Louise Cantor finds her twenty-eight year old son dead in his apartment, everything indicates it was a suicide. Louise, however, refuses to accept this, and with nothi ...Show more
Kennedy's Brain by Henning Mankell
Category: Crime and Thrillers
When archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe something more sinister took place. Henrik had kept many things back from her and she is shocked to learn he had contracted HIV. Whi ...Show more