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The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander #4) by Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson (Translator)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser.
The New York Times called Henning Mankell "that unusual thing: a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature and who has broken out as an international phenomenon," and his brilliant creation Detective Kurt Wallander is worthy of comparison to Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's Martin Beck and ...Show more
The Man Who Smiled (Wallander #4) by Henning Mankell
Category: Crime and Thrillers
After killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression. He has just decided to leave the police when an old friend approaches him for help investigating his father's suspicious death. Kurt doesn't want to know. But then his friend is ...Show more
The Man Who Smiled (Wallander #4) by Henning Mankell
Category: Fiction | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser.
Crestfallen, dejected and 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, a solicitor, seeks Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious circumstances in w ...Show more
The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell
Category: Crime and Thrillers
One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, the ...Show more
The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 ...Show more
The Pyramid by Henning Mankell
Category: Crime and Thrillers
When Kurt Wallander first appeared in "Faceless Killers" back in 1990, 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 ...Show more
The Pyramid by Henning Mankell
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser.
When Kurt Wallander first appeared in FACELESS KILLERS back in 1990, 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 pla ...Show more
The Pyramid: Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Kurt Wallander
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 ...Show more
The Pyramid - Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell; Ebba Segerberg (Translator); Laurie Thompson (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser.
When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, 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 plac ...Show more
The Return Of The Dancing Master by Henning Mankell
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 tim ...Show more
The Return of the Dancing Master (tr Laurie Thompson) by Henning Mankell
Category: Fiction
Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, lives alone in a remote cottage in northern Sweden. Two things seem to consume him; his passion for the tango, and an obsession with the "demons" he believes to be pursuing him. Early one morning shots shatter Molin's windows
The Rock Blaster by Henning Mankell
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Henning Mankell's first novel, never before released in English, explores the reflections of a working class man who has struggled against the constraints of his station for his entire life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. The year is 1911. The young rock blaster Oskar Johansson has been killed in an accident. ...Show more