The White Lioness(Reprint) A Kurt Wallander Mystery (3) by HenningMankell, Laurie Thompson Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2003 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3155-9, ISBN: 1-4000-3155-9
"From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the third riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, the basis for the PBS series staring Kenneth Branagh.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 ..."
The Fifth Woman(Reprint) (A Kurt Wallander Mystery) by HenningMankell, Steven T. Murray Paperback, 437 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3154-2, ISBN: 1-4000-3154-0
"A series of men who seem to have nothing in common are brutally killed--one is impaled, another starved and then strangled. We know more than the police--we know that the killer is a woman and we gradually understand some of her motivation; her much wronged mother was murdered almost by chance in a North African country--but we don't know who she is, or, for a while at least, her motives and principles of selection of her victims. Inspe ..."
Sidetracked(Reprint) A Kurt Wallander Mystery (5) by HenningMankell, Steven T. Murray Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2003 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3156-6, ISBN: 1-4000-3156-7
""The Swedish summer-time is too beautiful and too brief for something like this to happen." A young girl commits self-immolation, a former government minister is killed with an axe and scalped; these are the two brutal facts that confront Inspector Kurt Wallander as he prepares for his holiday. As the Swedish midsummer approaches there is no escaping from the darkness of society. Sidetracked, the fifth of Henning Mankell's acclaimed Ku ..."
Faceless Killers(Reprint) The First Kurt Wallander Mystery by HenningMankell, Steven T. Murray Paperback, 279 Pages, Published 2003 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3157-3, ISBN: 1-4000-3157-5
"A new world had emerged, and he hadn't even noticed it. As a policeman, he still lived in another, older world. How was he going to learn to live with the new? . . We live as if we were in mourning for a lost paradise, he thought... It could be said that as a policeman, Kurt Wallander, Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell's award winning creation, isn't much cop. He eschews the meticulous and the scientific in favour of his hunches, wh ..."
"From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the sixth riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, the basis for the PBS series staring Kenneth Branagh.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 cr ..."
"The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankellâs brilliant, brooding detective, Kurt Wallander.On a winter day in 2008, HÃ¥kan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation into his disappearance falls under the jurisdiction of the Stockholm police. It has nothing to do with Wallanderâofficially. But von Enke is his daughterâs future father-in-law. And ..."
Kennedy's Brain(Reprint) A Thriller (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by HenningMankell, Laurie Thompson Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2008 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38591-8, ISBN: 0-307-38591-4
"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 mother's intuition, she and her ex-husband set out to find what happened. What they discover is a dark ..."
"From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the second riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, the basis for the PBS series staring Kenneth Branagh.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 abili ..."
"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 reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrén ..."
The Troubled Man(1st Edition) A Kurt Wallander Mystery (10) by HenningMankell, Laurie Thompson Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2011 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-59349-8, ISBN: 0-307-59349-5
"The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell’s brilliant, brooding detective, Kurt Wallander.On a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation into his disappearance falls under the jurisdiction of the Stockholm police. It has nothing to do with Wallander—officially. But von Enke is his daughter’s future father-in-law. And so, wit ..."
"Henning Mankell's last novel about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire. Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only resident. He has a daughter he rarely sees and his mailman Jansson is the closest thing he has to a friend, and to an adversary. He is perfectly con ..."
The Man Who Smiled(Reprint) A Kurt Wallander Mystery (4) (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by HenningMankell, Laurie Thompson Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-9583-4, ISBN: 1-4000-9583-2
"From the dean of Scandinavian noir, comes a riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, the basis for the PBS series staring Kenneth Branagh.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 h ..."
"A series of men who seem to have nothing in common are brutally killed--one is impaled, another starved and then strangled. We know more than the police--we know that the killer is a woman and we gradually understand some of her motivation; her much wronged mother was murdered almost by chance in a North African country--but we don't know who she is, or, for a while at least, her motives and principles of selection of her victims. Inspe ..."
"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 reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrén ..."
"A series of men who seem to have nothing in common are brutally killed--one is impaled, another starved and then strangled. We know more than the police--we know that the killer is a woman and we gradually understand some of her motivation; her much wronged mother was murdered almost by chance in a North African country--but we don't know who she is, or, for a while at least, her motives and principles of selection of her victims. Inspe ..."
The Man Who Smiled(1st Edition) (Kurt Wallander Mysteries) by HenningMankell, Laurie Thompson Hardcover, 325 Pages, Published 2006 by New Press, The ISBN-13: 978-1-56584-993-8, ISBN: 1-56584-993-0
"Dalgliesh.The Man Who Smiled begins with Wallander deep in a personal and professional crisis after killing a man in the line of duty; eventually, he vows to quit the Ystad police force for good. Just then, however, a friend who had asked Wallander to look into the death of his father winds up dead himself, shot three times. Ann-Britt Höglund, the department's first female detective, proves to be his best ally as he tries to pierce the ..."
"From the dean of Scandinavian noir, come s a riveting mystery set in frozen north of Sweden. .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 snow — as 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 former colleague, but ..."
Before The Frost(1st Edition) A Linda Wallander Mystery (Kurt Wallander Mysteries (Hardcover)) by HenningMankell, Ebba Segerberg, Steven T. Murray Hardcover, 383 Pages, Published 2005 by New Press, The ISBN-13: 978-1-56584-835-1, ISBN: 1-56584-835-7
"The internationally acclaimed crime writer introduces a new, young heroine with a familiar father. Linda Wallander is bored. Just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. Meantime, she is living with her father and, like fathers and daughters everywhere, they are driving each other crazy. Nor will they be able to escape each other when she moves out. Her ..."
"From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the seventh riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, the basis for the PBS series staring Kenneth Branagh. 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 ..."