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Internationally acclaimed author Henning Mankell has written nine Kurt Wallander mysteries. The books have been published in thirty-three countries and consistently top the bestseller lists in Europe, receiving major literary prizes (including the UK's Golden Dagger for Sidetracked) and generating numerous international film and television adaptations. He has also published many other novels for children, teens, and adults. In addition, he is one of Sweden's most popular dramatists.
Born in 1948, Mankell grew up in the Swedish village Sveg. He now divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he works as a director at Teatro Avenida. He has spent... Read More
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The Pyramid
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $14.95
The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Kurt Wallander's beginnings.
Revealing a side of Wallander that we have never seen, the long stories collected in The Pyramid are vintage Mankell. Here, we see Wallander on his homicide first case as a twenty-one-year-old patrolman, as a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $14.95
The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Kurt Wallander's beginnings.
Revealing a side of Wallander that we have never seen, the long stories collected in The Pyramid are vintage Mankell. Here, we see Wallander on his homicide first case as a twenty-one-year-old patrolman, as a... Read more >
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Faceless Killers
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $14.00
First in the Kurt Wallander series.
It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn’t present enough problems for the Ystad... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $14.00
First in the Kurt Wallander series.
It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn’t present enough problems for the Ystad... Read more >
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The Dogs of Riga
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.95
Second in the Kurt Wallander series.
On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.95
Second in the Kurt Wallander series.
On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as... Read more >
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The White Lioness
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $14.95
Third in the Kurt Wallander series.
The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough, the cops catch up with him. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, they... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $14.95
Third in the Kurt Wallander series.
The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough, the cops catch up with him. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, they... Read more >
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Sidetracked
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $14.95
Fourth in the Kurt Wallander series.
In the award-winning Sidetracked, Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $14.95
Fourth in the Kurt Wallander series.
In the award-winning Sidetracked, Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to... Read more >
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The Fifth Woman
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.95
Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series.
In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $14.95
Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series.
In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer... Read more >
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The Man Who Smiled
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $14.95
After killing a man in the line of duty, Kurt Wallander resolves to quit the Ystad police. However, a bizarre case gets under his skin.
A lawyer driving home at night stops to investigate an effigy sitting in a chair in the middle of the highway. The lawyer is hit over... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $14.95
After killing a man in the line of duty, Kurt Wallander resolves to quit the Ystad police. However, a bizarre case gets under his skin.
A lawyer driving home at night stops to investigate an effigy sitting in a chair in the middle of the highway. The lawyer is hit over... Read more >
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One Step Behind
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $13.95
Sixth in the Kurt Wallander series.
On Midsummer’s Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander’s most trusted colleagues–someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime–also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $13.95
Sixth in the Kurt Wallander series.
On Midsummer’s Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander’s most trusted colleagues–someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime–also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related... Read more >
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Before the Frost
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $14.95
In this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter Linda join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree. Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skane to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her father--the maverick approach... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $14.95
In this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter Linda join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree. Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skane to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her father--the maverick approach... Read more >
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Firewall
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $14.95
Seventh in the Kurt Wallander series.
A body is found at an ATM the apparent victim of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime showing no remorse whatsoever. Two open and shut cases. At first these two... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $14.95
Seventh in the Kurt Wallander series.
A body is found at an ATM the apparent victim of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime showing no remorse whatsoever. Two open and shut cases. At first these two... Read more >
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The Return of the Dancing Master
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snowÉas if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young police officer recently diagnosed with mouth cancer, decides to investigate the murder of his... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snowÉas if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young police officer recently diagnosed with mouth cancer, decides to investigate the murder of his... Read more >
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Kennedy's Brain
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
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 nothing more than few suspicions and a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
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 nothing more than few suspicions and a... Read more >
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Depths
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2008
Price: $14.95
Internationally bestselling author Henning Mankell delivers a lyrical and evocative novel about a Swedish naval engineer during World War I and his devastating plunge into obsession.
In 1914 Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is covertly measuring the depths of Swedish coastal waters. A man of discipline and obsessed with exactitude, he is more comfortable on... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2008
Price: $14.95
Internationally bestselling author Henning Mankell delivers a lyrical and evocative novel about a Swedish naval engineer during World War I and his devastating plunge into obsession.
In 1914 Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is covertly measuring the depths of Swedish coastal waters. A man of discipline and obsessed with exactitude, he is more comfortable on... Read more >
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The Eye of the Leopard
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $14.95
Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, rich and poor, The Eye of the Leopard is a stunning novel from a modern master.
Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his recently deceased friend Janice. Africa is a complete shock to Olofson, yet... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $14.95
Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, rich and poor, The Eye of the Leopard is a stunning novel from a modern master.
Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his recently deceased friend Janice. Africa is a complete shock to Olofson, yet... Read more >
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When the Snow Fell
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.99
Joel Gustafson’s journey toward becoming a man continues.
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 new resolutions—three, to be exact.
As... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.99
Joel Gustafson’s journey toward becoming a man continues.
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 new resolutions—three, to be exact.
As... Read more >
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Chronicler of the Winds
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $13.95
A haunting and powerful story about war-torn Africa, a mystical orphan boy, and the power of narrative to give a chaotic world order.
In the hot African night a single gunshot cracks the silence. José Antonio traces the sound to the stage of the local theatre company, where he finds Nelio... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $13.95
A haunting and powerful story about war-torn Africa, a mystical orphan boy, and the power of narrative to give a chaotic world order.
In the hot African night a single gunshot cracks the silence. José Antonio traces the sound to the stage of the local theatre company, where he finds Nelio... Read more >
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A Bridge to the Stars
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $8.99
This poignant novel explores how a unilateral decision can change a life.
Two things are hard for Joel Gustafson to cope with: not knowing why, and not being able to do anything about it. Joel’s father was once a sailor who lived by the sea. Joel’s mother once lived with them. Joel’s... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $8.99
This poignant novel explores how a unilateral decision can change a life.
Two things are hard for Joel Gustafson to cope with: not knowing why, and not being able to do anything about it. Joel’s father was once a sailor who lived by the sea. Joel’s mother once lived with them. Joel’s... Read more >
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Shadows in the Twilight
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $15.99
JOEL WILL SOON be 12, and he thinks nothing is going on in the small community where he lives. But he’s wrong. One day, an incident that could easily have been a catastrophe turns into a miracle. Now Joel believes he owes the world a good deed, to prove that he... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $15.99
JOEL WILL SOON be 12, and he thinks nothing is going on in the small community where he lives. But he’s wrong. One day, an incident that could easily have been a catastrophe turns into a miracle. Now Joel believes he owes the world a good deed, to prove that he... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover library binding and a
trade paperback.
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The Man from Beijing
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $25.95
The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.
January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.
Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $25.95
The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.
January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.
Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular... Read more >
The Man from Beijing
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $25.95
The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.
January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.
Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular... Read more >
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $25.95
The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.
January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.
Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular... Read more >
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The Man from Beijing
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $45.00
The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.
January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.
Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $45.00
The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.
January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.
Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular... Read more >
The Man from Beijing
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $25.00
The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.
January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.
Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $25.00
The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.
January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.
Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular... Read more >
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Shadows in the Twilight
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 208 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $18.99
JOEL WILL SOON be 12, and he thinks nothing is going on in the small community where he lives. But he’s wrong. One day, an incident that could easily have been a catastrophe turns into a miracle. Now Joel believes he owes the world a good deed, to prove that he... Read more >
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 208 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $18.99
JOEL WILL SOON be 12, and he thinks nothing is going on in the small community where he lives. But he’s wrong. One day, an incident that could easily have been a catastrophe turns into a miracle. Now Joel believes he owes the world a good deed, to prove that he... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Shadows in the Twilight
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $8.99
JOEL WILL SOON be 12, and he thinks nothing is going on in the small community where he lives. But he’s wrong. One day, an incident that could easily have been a catastrophe turns into a miracle. Now Joel believes he owes the world a good deed, to prove that he... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $8.99
JOEL WILL SOON be 12, and he thinks nothing is going on in the small community where he lives. But he’s wrong. One day, an incident that could easily have been a catastrophe turns into a miracle. Now Joel believes he owes the world a good deed, to prove that he... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
hardcover library binding.
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