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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 many years in Africa, where a number of his novels are set. |
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-1-4000-9582-7 (1-4000-9582-4) | October 2009 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Thrillers | 978-0-307-38585-7 (0-307-38585-X) | April 2009 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Thrillers | 978-0-307-38591-8 (0-307-38591-4) | November 2008 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Thrillers | 978-0-307-38586-4 (0-307-38586-8) | April 2008 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-1-4000-9583-4 (1-4000-9583-2) | September 2007 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Literary | 978-0-307-28044-2 (0-307-28044-6) | June 2007 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-1-4000-9581-0 (1-4000-9581-6) | February 2006 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-1-4000-7695-6 (1-4000-7695-1) | February 2005 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-1-4000-3152-8 (1-4000-3152-4) | April 2004 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-1-4000-3154-2 (1-4000-3154-0) | April 2004 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-1-4000-3153-5 (1-4000-3153-2) | September 2003 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-1-4000-3156-6 (1-4000-3156-7) | May 2003 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-1-4000-3155-9 (1-4000-3155-9) | May 2003 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-1-4000-3157-3 (1-4000-3157-5) | January 2003 | $ 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
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-1-4000-3151-1 (1-4000-3151-6) | January 2003 | $ 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