Henning Mankell
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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 realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex—and dangerous. The search for the truth behind the killing eventually uncovers an assassination plot, and Wallander...
2) Sidetracked
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
His long-awaited vacation interrupted by two deaths, Inspector Kurt Wallander begins trying to piece together how the brutal murder of a former minister of justice is related to the self-immolation of an unidentified young woman.
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"A novel in which Kurt Wallander becomes involved in the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer--who is Wallander's daughter Linda's future father-in-law--which leads him into a story of Cold War espionage. Wallander also confronts his own age and mortality, while welcoming his first granddaughter"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, January 1960 nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin's Andrén grandparents, and an Andrén family from Nevada are among the victims. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andrén ancestor, a gang master on the American transcontinental railway, that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"A novel in which Kurt Wallander becomes involved in the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer--who is Wallander's daughter Linda's future father-in-law--which leads him into a story of Cold War espionage. Wallander also confronts his own age and mortality, while welcoming his first granddaughter"--
Author
Series
Sofia (Henning Mankell) volume 3
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Sofia, who lost her legs as a child, is now grown up with children in Mozambique, but when she discovers that Armando, the father of her children, is cheating on her, she leaves him, igniting his terrible rage.
Author
Series
Joel Gustafson series volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Now almost fourteen, Joel becomes a local hero to his small Swedish town when he saves an old man from freezing to death in the woods.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snow as if someone has been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young police officer recently diagnosed with cancer, decides to investigate the murder of his former colleague but is soon enmeshed in a mystifying case with no witnesses and no apparent motives. Terrified of the disease that could take his life, Lindman...
Author
Series
Sofia (Henning Mankell) volume 1
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
15) One step behind
Author
Series
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
It is midsummer's eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elobrate masque. But unknown to them they are being watched. With a bullet each, all three are murdered. Soon afterward, one of Kurt Wallender's colleagues is found murdered.
It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector...
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Three crime dramas based on the best selling books by Henning Mankell - Sidetracked, Firewall, and One Step Behind - follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.