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  Kurt Wallander: Book 1

  Faceless Killers

  by Henning Mankell

  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 police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word is foreign , leaving the police the one tangible clue they have–and in the... (more)
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  The Man from Beijing

  by Henning Mankell

  The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries now gives us an electrifying stand-alone thriller that takes off into a sweeping international drama. 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. The... (more)
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  Kurt Wallander: Book 2

  The Dogs of Riga

  by Henning Mankell

  Second in the Kurt Wallander series.
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  Kurt Wallander: Book 6

  The Fifth Woman

  by Henning Mankell

  Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series.
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  Kurt Wallander: Book 4

  The Man Who Smiled

  by Henning Mankell

  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... (more)
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  Kurt Wallander: Book 3

  The White Lioness

  by Henning Mankell

  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 realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex—and dangerous. The search for the... (more)
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  Kurt Wallander: Book 11

  The Troubled Man

  by Henning Mankell

  The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell’s brilliant, brooding detective Kurt Wallander. Håkan von Enke, a retired naval officer, disappears during a walk in a forest near Stockholm. Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation, but he is personally affected—von Enke is his daughter’s father-in-law—and Wallander is soon interfering in matters that are not his responsibility. He is confounded by... (more)
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  Kurt Wallander: Book 5

  Sidetracked

  by Henning Mankell

  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 a beach where Sweden’s former Minister of Justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious... (more)
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  Kurt Wallander: Book 9

  The Pyramid

  The First Wallander Cases

  by Henning Mankell

  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 young father facing unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, as a middle-aged... (more)
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  Kurt Wallander: Book 8

  Firewall

  by Henning Mankell

  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 incidents seem to have nothing in common, but as Wallander delves deeper into the mystery of why the girls murdered the cab driver... (more)
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  Before the Frost (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

  by Henning Mankell, Ebba Segerberg

  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, the flaring temper. Before she even starts work she becomes embroiled in the case of her childhood... (more)
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  Kurt Wallander: Book 7

  One Step Behind

  by Henning Mankell

  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. But with his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know, he... (more)
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  The Return of the Dancing Master

  by Henning Mankell

  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 former colleague, but is soon enmeshed in a mystifying case with no witnesses and no apparent... (more)
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  Depths

  by Henning Mankell

  A gripping, masterful novel from the world-famous Henning Mankell, set off the coast of Sweden during World War I. The skerry was resting in the sea. It was like being in a cradle, or on a deathbed, he thought. All the voices hidden in the cliff were whispering. Even rocks have memories, as do waves and breakers. And down below, in the darkness where fish swam along invisible and silent channels, there were... (more)
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  Italian Shoes

  by Henning Mankell

  From the prizewinning "master of atmosphere" ( Boston Globe ) comes the surprising and affecting story of a man well past middle age who suddenly finds himself on the threshold of renewal. Living on a tiny island entirely surrounded by ice during the long winter months, Fredrik Welin is so lost to the world that he cuts a hole in the ice every morning and lowers himself into the freezing water to remind... (more)
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  Joel Gustafsson: Book 3

  When the Snow Fell

  by Henning Mankell

  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 the winter days pass, life becomes ever more complicated. Joel has questions and the answers don’t necessarily come easily, but he... (more)
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  Kennedy's Brain

  by Henning Mankell

  Internationally bestselling novelist Henning Mankell delivers a terrifying thriller inspired by the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Henning Mankell, the acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, has put his unmistakable stamp on this gripping new thriller. Archaeologist Louise Cantor returns home to Sweden and makes a devastating discovery: her only child, twenty-eight-year-old Henrik, dead in... (more)
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  Joel Gustafsson: Book 1

  A Bridge to the Stars

  by Henning Mankell

  One of the world’s best-selling authors has written a moving story about a teenager’s life in Northern Sweden. 12-year-old Joel lives with his father in the cold northern part of Sweden. At night he often sneaks out of the house to look for a lonely dog he has seen from his window. On the bridge across the icy river he starts a secret society and has adventures. But one night he discovers that his father’s bed is... (more)
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  Joel Gustafsson: Book 3

  Shadows in the Twilight

  by Henning Mankell

  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 deserved what might have been divine intervention. He thinks up an elaborate scheme, but it doesn’t go as anticipated. Even though his heart is in the... (more)
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  The Eye of the Leopard

  by Henning Mankell, Steven T. Murray

  A haunting novel juxtaposing a man's coming-of-age in Sweden with his life in Zambia, from the internationally bestselling author. Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, The Eye of the Leopard draws on bestselling author Henning Mankell's deep understanding of the two worlds he has inhabited for more than twenty years. Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill... (more)