Henning Mankell
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A #1 international bestseller: This “exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth” launched the acclaimed Wallander Mysteries and BBC series starring Kenneth Branagh (Los Angeles Times).
Early one morning, a small-town farmer discovers that his neighbors have been victims of a brutal attack during the night: An old man has been bludgeoned to death, and his tortured wife lies dying before the farmer’s eyes....
Early one morning, a small-town farmer discovers that his neighbors have been victims of a brutal attack during the night: An old man has been bludgeoned to death, and his tortured wife lies dying before the farmer’s eyes....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old former surgeon who retired in disgrace years ago. He has retreated to a 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 is perfectly content to live out his days in quiet solitude. Until he wakes up one autumn evening to find his house on fire. Fredrik escapes just in time, wearing two left-footed boots. All that remains in the morning...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cold and poverty define Hanna Renstrom's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white supremacy rule, where she is isolated within society by her...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With more than 30 million copies of his works published in 37 languages, award-winning author Henning Mankell may be Sweden' s most accomplished novelist. Here he crafts the icy, atmospheric tale of Fredrik Welin, a disgraced surgeon living in exile on a small island. When Fredrik receives a surprise visit from a lover he abandoned decades earlier, he begins the difficult road to redemption.
10) One step behind
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"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. But with his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know, he can t begin to imagine how. Reeling from his own father s death and facing...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Author
Publisher
distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Arriving in newly independent Zambia in the hopes of fulfilling a friend's missionary dream, Hans Olofson endeavors to make Africa his home while struggling with such past demons as his father's alcoholism and a friend's accident.
14) The fifth woman
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Linda Wallander mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
17) The shadow girls
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Ordered by his editor to write a crime novel to reignite his stalled career, poet Jesper Humlin reluctantly travels to Gothenburg, where three unlikely pupils of an impromptu writing workshop draw him into their culturally driven, compelling worlds.
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
19) Firewall
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 8
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
20) The rock blaster
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1911. The young rock blaster Oskar Johansson has been killed in an accident. Or so it says in the local newspaper. In spite of serious injuries, however, Oskar survives. Decades later, Oskar looks back and reflects on his working life as an invalid, his marriage, his dreams, and his hopes. Oskar's life is woven together out of fragments of voices, images, and episodes that, taken together, provide a sharp and precise picture of life in...