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As Joel Gustafson approaches his fifteenth birthday, he reflects on the newfound freedoms that await him, including riding a moped and watching adult films without sneaking in. He harbors a deep desire for adventure, dreaming of leaving their small Swedish town to sail with his father. This pivotal moment in his life prompts Joel to contemplate both the exciting opportunities and the challenges of growing up, as he navigates his aspirations and family dynamics.

It is Midsummer's Eve, three young friends gather in a wood. In the still-sunlit Scandanavian dusk, they don costumes joyfully to enact - or so it appears to an unseen observer - a kind of masque. The hidden watcher soon brings their performance to an end. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect. Three bullets, three corpses. The murderer then carefully photographs the grisly tableau. The Ystad police station meanwhile is experiencing a summer lull, indeed Inspector Wallander is at last at liberty to attend to - albeit reluctantly - his deteriorating health, but his peace of mind is shattered when one of his colleagues is murdered. An unknown killer, seen by no-one, is on the loose, and the police's only lead is a photograph of three dead young people in costume. Forced to dig more deeply than he would have wanted into the personal life of one of his colleagues, Wallander's investigation reveals something none of his team could ever have imagined. However, they remain tantalisingly, terrifyingly one step behind the lethal progress of a killer Wallander would have to suppose was deranged if his methods were not so meticulous and his victims so clinically targeted.

Midsummer approaches, and Inspector Kurt Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. But his restful summer plans are thrown into disarray when a teenage girl commits suicide before his eyes, and a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. Wallander's desperate hunt for the girl's identity and his furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him and those he loves most into mortal danger. WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER

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The mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander • From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the sixth riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed 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 and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, and the body of a missing florist is discovered--strangled and tied to a tree. The only clues Wallander has to go on are a skull, a diary, and a photo of three men. What ensues is a case that will test Wallander’s strength and patience, because in order to discover the reason behind these murders, he will also need to uncover the elusive connection between these deaths and the earlier unsolved murder in Africa of the fifth woman.

One night the baker Jose Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. Bemused he races up to the uppermost gallery and there beneath him on a spot-lit stage is the wounded body of Nelio, the fabled street urchin, renowned throughout the city for living on his wits. Gasping, Nelio asks to be taken to the roof to breathe in the beautiful air, fresh off the indian ocean. There on the theatre roof, his life ebbing away, Nelio begans his story. At the age of five, Nelio witnessed his village burn to the ground, and the brutal massacre of his people by bandits. He himself escaped by chance; a man handed Nelio a gun and ordered him to shoot another boy, instead he turned the gun on the bandit, shot and ran. He made his way to the coast, encountering bizarre characters en route who gave him guidence. Upon arrival in the city Nelio joined a rough street gang, and began a very different way of life. A dazzling departure from the master of crime, Henning Mankell's CHRONICLER OF THE WINDS takes us to the African continent, a place for which the author has a great passion. An expertly crafted fable.

Inspector Kurt Wallander begins to suspect a connection between a series of crimes--the murder of a taxi driver by two teenage girls, the escape of one of the culprits, a power blackout, and a grisly discovery at the malfunctioning power station

After killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression. He has just decided to leave the police when an old friend approaches him for help investigating his father's suspicious death. Kurt doesn't want to know. But then his friend is found shot dead. Against his better judgment, he returns to work to head what may now have become a double murder case. But while Wallander is on the trail of the killer, somebody is on the trail of Wallander, and closing in fast.

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 is soon enmeshed in a mystifying case with no witnesses and no apparent motives. Terrified of the disease that could take his life, Lindman becomes more and more reckless as he unearths the chilling links between Molin’s death and an underground neo-Nazi network that runs further and deeper than he could ever have imagined.

In the night there was a blue world lit by the moon . . . blue sand trickled between her fingers and swells of seawater moved inside her . . . It was a dream, yet Sofia knew that her time had come. She was fifteen, and childhood was behind her. Sofia takes in sewing, and her older sister, Rosa, works in the vegetable plot to help their mother support their family. Rosa, is strong and beautiful, and she loves boys, and dancing - something that Sofia, with her crutches, will never be able to do. Sofia imagines a boy who will love her for herself - Moonboy - the boy who appears in the night. Then suddenly Rosa falls ill, and Sofia is afraid for her. Their mother puts her faith in African magic, but it's Sofia who must help Rosa face the reality of AIDS, and the difficult road ahead. Playing with Fire is a brave, moving and unflinchingly honest story set in Mozambique. It follows Henning Mankell's earlier novel about Sofia, the unforgettable Secrets in the Fire.

Joel is growing up. He is getting interested in girls. Just look at his New Year’s resolutions: 1 — to see a naked lady; 2 — to toughen himself up so that he can live to be a hundred; and 3 — to see the sea. They all look pretty impossible for a motherless boy in Northern Sweden. Especially as his sailor dad is keen to drown his sadness in drink, and all the local matrons are narrowly watching the pair of them. And then he saves old Simon from a frozen death in the woods, and Joel becomes a local hero. This is the third title in the popular series of children’s books from this master storyteller. The two previous ones are A Bridge to the Stars and Shadows in the Twilight .

In woodland outside Ystad, the police make a horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victim's side, the pages marked with scribbled corrections.

Detective Wallander is haunted by the spectre of a murder he was unable to prevent as a young policeman. Years after the event, the daughter of the murder victim, now a heroin addict, dies of an overdose. A distressed Wallander is assigned to investigate the crash of a light airplane and a detonated armour piercing shell is found in the wreckage. A few days later, two elderly sisters are killed in an explosion in a sewing supplies shop. Traces of an advanced explosive are found in the burnt-out shop and evidence soon mounts to indicate that both events are tied to a showdown between two rival narcotics gangs.

CRIME & MYSTERY. In peaceful Southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation and no motive. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. As Inspector Wallander is introduced to this missing person's case, he has a gut feeling that the victim will never be found alive. In South Africa, Nelson Mandela has made his long walk to freedom, setting in train the country's painful journey towards the end of Apartheid. Wallander and his colleagues find themselves caught up in a complex web involving renegade members of South Africa's secret service and a former KGB agent, all of whom are set upon halting Mandela's rise to power. In an increasingly globalised world, Wallander and his team are faced with international terrorism which knows no frontiers - they must prevent a hideous crime that means to dam the tide of history.

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander • From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the first riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed 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 process, the match that could inflame Sweden’s already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments. Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has peaked his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve.

With its authentically rendered settings and vividly realized characters, and its command over the intricately interwoven details of police detection, Roseanna is a masterpiece of suspense and sadness by the Authors of the Laughing Policeman and The Locked Room. Originally published in 1965.

It is winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team at the Ystad police station in Skane, southern Sweden, receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later what they have been warned of comes to pass: a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead

When Kurt Wallander is called into the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer, coincidentally his daughter's future father-in-law, he becomes embroiled in a story of Cold War espionage.

Continues the story of Joel, now nearly twelve and living with his father in a small town in 1957 Sweden, as he is run over by a bus and survives without a scratch, then sets out to do a good deed in gratitude for this miracle.

The eleventh riveting installment in the mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander • Wallander is "one of the most impressive creations in crime fiction today.... An old-fashioned moral force and sense of disquiet of the sort rarely found in contemporary crime fiction." —The Guardian After nearly thirty years in the same job, Inspector Kurt Wallander is tired, restless, and itching to make a change. He is taken with a certain old farmhouse, perfectly situated in a quiet countryside with a charming, overgrown garden. There he finds the skeletal hand of a corpse in a shallow grave. Wallander’s investigation takes him deep into the history of the house and the land, until finally the shocking truth about a long-buried secret is brought to light. Includes an afterword by the author.

The unforgettable story of Sofia, a courageous young woman struggling to take care of her poverty-stricken family in Mozambique. This is the third novel about Sofia, which began with a terrible landmine accident in Secrets in the Fire, and continued into her teenage years in Playing with Fire.

In 1904, Hanna Renstrom boards a ship bound for Australia hoping to escape the cold and poverty that have dominated her life in Sweden. Her harrowing journey lands her in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white colonists rule, where she becomes a peculiar outsider: she is on the outskirts of white society, because of her gender and profession as the owner of a bordello, and separated from the African prostitutes with whom she lives due to her skin color. As her life becomes increasingly intertwined with the brothel, Hanna moves inexorably toward the moment when one decision will defy all the expectations society has of her and, most important, those she has of herself. Henning Mankell imbues this deeply moving story with all of the gripping drama, vividly drawn characters, and evocative details of place that fans of his acclaimed Kurt Wallander crime novels have come to love.

GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. In the 1870s, Hans Bengler arrives in Cape Town from Smaland, Sweden, driven by a singular desire: to discover an insect no one has seen before and name it after himself. But then he impulsively adopts a young San orphan, a boy he christens Daniel and brings with him back to Sweden. Daniel is told to call Bengler "Father," taught to knock on doors and bow, and continually struggles to understand this strange new land of mud and snow that surrounds and seemingly entraps him. At the same time, he is haunted by visions of his murdered parents calling him home to Africa. Knowing that the only way home is by sea, he decides he must learn to walk on water if he is ever to reclaim his true place in the world. Evocative and sometimes brutal, the novel takes Daniel through a series of tragedies and betrayals that culminate in a shocking act. Mankell tells this indelible story with a ruthless elegance all his own

Hans Olofson is the son of a Swedish lumberjack. His early life is isolated and difficult, overshadowed by the disappearance of his mother. When he loses both his best friend, and then his girlfriend in tragic circumstances, his only remaining desire is t

This strange, beguiling book...gives closure to a substantial career without becoming maudlin or overly bleak. The waters around Welin's island may freeze in the winter, but there is human warmth to be found in these pages, along with glimmers of hope and consolation... The bell may have tolled for one of Scandinavia's finest writers, but his connection to those left behind is unbroken. Ian Rankin Guardian

A moving, compelling and powerful new novel by the author of Depths and the Wallander Mysteries

At 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial accident. The local newspaper reports him dead, but they are mistaken.Because Oskar Johansson is a born survivor.Though crippled, Oskar finds the strength to go on living and working. The Rock Blaster charts his long professional life - his hopes and dreams, sorrows and joys. His relationship with the woman whose love saved him, with the labour movement that gave him a cause to believe in, and with his children, who do not share his ideals.Henning Mankell's first published novel is steeped in the burning desire for social justice that informed his bestselling crime novels. Remarkably assured for a debut, it is written with scalpel-like precision, at once poetic and insightful in its depiction of a true working-class hero.Translated from the Swedish by George Goulding

"In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been found dead. When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved and decides to investigate. A nineteenth-century diary and a red silk ribbon found in the forest nearby are her only clues"--Cover.

When archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe something more sinister took place. Henrik had kept many things back from her and she is shocked to learn he had contracted HIV. While looking through his bundles of papers, she discovers he was obsessed with the conspiracy theory that JFK's brain disappeared prior to the autopsy - along with the vital evidence regarding bullet exit wounds. The only lead is a letter and photograph from Henrik's girlfriend in Mozambique. Louise's quest to unravel the mystery surrounding her son's death takes her to Africa; a continent rife with disease, poverty and corruption. Struggling to cope with sickness and the oppressive heat, Louise sees fear in every face, even unexpectedly in the patients at the clinics set up by an American businessman. In Kennedy's Brain Mankell confirms his status as a master of suspense, and delivers a timely and riveting thriller which will have readers on the edge of their seats until the very end.

Suspense fiction. A tense and gripping psychological thriller: Mankell's best book yet.

Tea-Bag, a young Nigerian girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Tania has made a long and dangerous journey to escape the horrors of human trafficking. Leila has come with her family from Iran. All of them are facing different challenges in their new home. Meanwhile, celebrated poet Jesper Humlin is looking for inspiration. Harried by his mother and girlfriend, misunderstood by his publisher and tormented by his stock broker, Jesper needs a new perspective on life. A chance encounter with Tea-Bag leads him into the shadow world of the immigrant experience in Sweden. Initially he sees the girls purely as material for his work, but they have very different ideas. In The Shadow Girls, Henning Mankell tells the extraordinary stories of three young women who are determined to overcome the hardships they face to take control of their own lives. This inspiring novel encompasses both humour and tragedy and illuminates the experiences of those left on the margins of our society

This poignant novel follows Joel Gustafson as he grapples with abandonment and mystery in his life. After spotting a lonely dog, Joel embarks on nightly adventures that reveal hidden truths about his father and himself, ultimately leading him to discover his own inner strength amidst adult disappointments.

Since 1999, I have collected pictures of plants. It has become a kind of photographic herbarium. The inspiration comes from Carl Linnaeus's writings about the reproduction of plants and I have tried to approach the subject with the same curiosity and eagerness as he clearly had. Linnaeus was free and poetic in both his speech and his text. He compared the sexuality of plants and humans as a pedagogic tool and he certainly was not shy. My aim has been to make pictures as Linnaeus himself would have done if he had access to our time's photographic techniques and to give Linnaeus insights into plant's sexuality a present-day shape.

Henning Mankells Afrika - fremd, erschreckend und voller Zauber Ein jahrzehntelanger Bürgerkrieg hat in Mosambik grausame Spuren hinterlassen. Hier lebt Sofia mit ihrer Familie - zwischen Dörfern, deren Bevölkerung fast ausgerottet wurde, und inmitten von Minenfeldern, die spielenden Kindern zum Verhängnis werden. Flucht und Hunger gehören zum Alltag. Dazu kommt die Bedrohung durch die Krankheit Aids. Auch Sofias Familie wird von den Auswirkungen des Krieges nicht verschont. Doch immer wieder gibt es hoffnungsvolle Momente in Sofias Leben - wie ihre erste Liebe oder die Erfahrung, dass selbst die Schwachen stark sein können, wenn sie sich gemeinsam wehren. „Die Macht des Feuers. Sofias Geschichte“ basiert auf einer wahren Geschichte.

Gerade dort, wo bitterste Armut herrscht, haben Menschen den Traum von einem besseren Leben nie aufgegeben. Und die Ärmsten der Armen beweisen dabei oft mehr Kraft, Erfindungsreichtum und Überlebenswillen, als wir es uns in unserer reichen Welt vorstellen können. Menschen aus Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika berichten in diesem Band von ihren ganz individuellen Träumen und davon, welche mutigen Schritte sie unternehmen, um diese zu erreichen. Vom Glück eines behinderten Mädchens in Indien, dessen Mutter sein Lachen als den größten Luxus begreift, von dem Engagement des Nicaraguaners Flores, dessen Einsatz als freiwilliger Feuerwehrmann Nachbarn das Leben gerettet hat, bis zur Vollwaise Maria Elisa Macuácua, die in Mozambique von einer Zukunft als Ärztin träumt – diese Menschen sind es, die mit ihrer persönlichen Kraft eine bessere Welt schaffen und beweisen: Eine bessere Welt ist möglich!

Als Rebekka tot aufgefunden wird, ruht ihre rechte Wange noch immer am Telefonhörer, als würde sie lauschen Welche Rolle spielt ihr Lebensgefährte, und was hat ihr Exmann mit ihrem gewaltsamen Tod zu tun? Ein Fall für Kommissar Gunnarstranda. Ein Mörder namens Wirén wohnt im selben Haus wie der zwölfjährige Hoover: Nicht auszudenken, was da alles passieren kann Zwei mörderische Krimigeschichten der Bestsellerautoren Kjell Ola Dahl und Henning Mankell.

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 it is heinous. But after the victims are traced to the Baltic state of Latvia, a country gripped by the upheaval of Soviet disintegration, Major Liepa of the Riga police takes over the investigation. Thinking his work done, Wallander slips into routine once more, until suddenly, he is called to Riga and plunged into an alien world where shadows are everywhere, everything is watched, and old regimes will do anything to stay alive.

»Eines Tages wird dieser barbarische Wahnsinn verschwinden«, sagt Ana, die Immigrantin aus Afrika. »Es wird keine verzweifelten Menschen mehr geben, die gezwungen sind, als unsichtbare Phantome zu leben, als Höhlenmenschen unserer Zeit.« Zwei Afrikanerinnen auf ihrem Weg nach Europa. Was sie suchen, ist ein Ort, an dem sie Mensch sein dürfen. Was sie finden? Ein Auffanglager, kriminelle Schlepper und Mädchenhändler. Sie hatten nicht damit gerechnet, so wenig willkommen zu sein. – Szenen aus dem Leben zweier Frauen, die von niemandem erwartet werden und statt eines Passes nur einen toten Schmetterling vorweisen können. Ein eindringliches Theaterstück über Menschen auf der Suche nach einer Heimat.

Voor zijn zesde verjaardag krijgt Lukas van zijn ouders een mooie kat – helemaal zwart, behalve het witte puntje van zijn staart. Lukas is heel gelukkig met het bijzondere dier, dat hij 'Nacht' noemt, en hij besluit zijn best te doen om de kattentaal te leren. Maar op een regenachtige dag is Nacht verdwenen. Zijn vader stelt Lukas gerust: 'Als het regent gaat een kat niet naar buiten. Katten houden niet van regen, dat weet je toch.' Lukas is daar niet zeker van. Hij maakt een briefje waarop staat dat degene die de kat vindt, een miljoen krijgt. De een na de ander komt aan de deur met een kat, maar Nacht is er niet bij. Dan besluit Lukas er zelf op uit te trekken. Dat is het begin van een spannende zoektocht.

National Best Seller From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as “a roadmap to my life.” M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer’s society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer’s craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith’s life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.

Die Diagnose Krebs hat Henning Mankell an einen alten Albtraum erinnert: im Treibsand zu versinken, der einen unerbittlich verschlingt. Im Nachdenken über wichtige Fragen des Lebens fand er ein Mittel, die Krise zu überwinden. Woher kommen wir? Wohin gehen wir? Welche Art der Gesellschaft will ich mitgestalten? Er beschreibt seine Begegnungen mit den kulturgeschichtlichen Anfängen der Menschheit, er reflektiert über Zukunftsfragen und erzählt, was Literatur, Kunst und Musik in verzweifelten Momenten bedeuten können. Henning Mankell blickt zurück auf Schlüsselszenen seines eigenen Lebens und beschreibt Fähigkeiten und Strategien, ein sinnvolles Leben zu führen.

Welchen besseren Anlass könnte es geben, Kurzgeschichten zu schreiben, als das bewegte Leben Caravaggios? Seine legendenumwobene Biografie berichtet von einem streitbaren Charakter, kirchlichen und aristokratischen Förderern, glanzvollen künstlerischen und gesellschaftlichen Erfolgen, von sexuellen Ausschweifungen, Totschlag, Flucht vor der Justiz, der päpstlichen Begnadigung und von Caravaggios frühem, rätselhaftem Tod. Anlässlich der Ausstellung Caravaggio im Düsseldorfer museum kunst palast haben sich acht bekannte Autoren von den Bildwerken des italienischen Barockmalers (1571–1610) inspirieren lassen. Ingrid Noll, die Grande-Dame des deutschen Kriminalromans, und der international angesehene schwedische Schriftsteller Henning Mankell haben in ihren Geschichten Caravaggio und seine Werke zum Leben erweckt und in einen spannenden Rahmen gesetzt. Weitere Autoren sind der Lyriker, Dramatiker und Essayist Gerhard Falkner, der Schriftsteller Arnold Stadler, die junge Erfolgsautorin Tanja Kinkel und der Bestsellerautor Florian Illies. Ergänzt wird die hochkarätige Riege durch zwei kriminalistische Meister der italienischen Literaturwelt: Nino Filastò und Andrea Camilleri. Ausstellung: museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf 9.9.2006–7.1.2007

Ein Theatermacher inszeniert in Afrika mit dem mürrischen Kommissar Kurt Wallander an seiner Seite. Er erzählt von einem gewissenlosen Mörder und der grausamen Wahrheit über einen Todesfall. Zudem präsentiert er das Stück "Antilopen", das den Alptraum Afrika thematisiert und sich mit der Dunkelheit unserer Zeit auseinandersetzt.

Voici, réunies en 1 volume, les deux premières aventures de l'enquêteur suédois mondialement célèbre, Kurt Watlander. Qu'il enquête dans une Scanie qui fustige ses réfugiés et succombe à la violence raciale (Meurtriers sans visage) ou sur l'assassinat de deux mafieux lettons (Les Chiens de Riga), Kurt Watlander est à l'image de son créateur : un humaniste anxieux, ébranlé par l'évolution du monde.

Eine spannende Kriminalgeschichte – aus ›Wallanders erster Fall‹. Kurz nach acht Uhr abends betritt er sein Fotoatelier am Marktplatz, wenige Stunden später ist Simon Lamberg tot. Erschlagen, wie Kommissar Kurt Wallander bald feststellen muß. Dunkel erinnert er sich an den alteingesessenen Fotografen, hat er doch selbst – wie jeder hier in Ystad – schon einmal dessen Dienste in Anspruch genommen. Aber was für ein Mensch war Lamberg? Wer hatte ein Interesse an seinem Tod? Ein merkwürdiger Mord: Es finden sich keine Spuren von Gewaltanwendung an den Türen, und es scheint auch nichts gestohlen worden zu sein. Die Ermittlungen laufen im Kreis. Da stößt Wallander auf ein Fotoalbum mit makabrem Inhalt ...

Morderstwo, tajemnica, suspens. Utwory duetów Sjöwall-Wahlöö oraz Mankell-Nesser; niepublikowane opowiadania Åke Edwardsona, Åsy Larsson czy Stiega Larssona; literacki debiut wieloletniej towarzyszki Stiega, architektki - Evy Gabrielsson i tekst nie kojarzonej z literaturą kryminalną, najwybitniejszej szwedzkiej pisarki Sary Stridsberg - zebrane w jednym tomie! Od klasycznych procedurals, pokazujących przebieg śledztwa, poprzez opowiadania prowadzone z punktu widzenia mordercy lub ofiary, aż po opowieści grozy, sensację, utwory psychologiczne, żarty literackie, a nawet science fiction. Ten niezwykły zbiór pokazuje wszechstronność, różnorodność i witalność literackiej sceny kryminalnej w Szwecji. To prawdziwa gratka dla wszystkich miłośników mrocznych, skandynawskich opowieści.

Eine Entdeckung: Henning Mankells erster Spannungsroman. Von Ausgrenzung, politischer Verfolgung und der Notwendigkeit, sich mit Geschichte auseinanderzusetzen. Ein kleiner Ort in Norrland nach dem Krieg. Bertil Kras kommt aus Stockholm, um hier sein Glück zu machen. Er findet Arbeit im Sägewerk. In einem Lager in der Nähe waren in den letzten Kriegsjahren Kommunisten und andere politische Oppositionelle interniert. Bertil, selbst überzeugter Kommunist, und eine Gruppe Gleichgesinnter wollen diese Vergangenheit an die Öffentlichkeit bringen. In einer kalten Januarnacht brennt das Sägewerk ab, und man verdächtigt Bertil, den Brand gelegt zu haben. Er droht alles zu verlieren und läuft auf dem Rangierbahnhof Amok. „Der Verrückte“ erzählt die Geschichte eines Arbeiters, der in der aufstrebenden Nachkriegsgesellschaft zum Opfer wird. Ein früher Roman von Henning Mankell über ein dunkles Kapitel der schwedischen Geschichte.

Vid gränsen mellan hav och land, dröm och verklighet, saga och sanning, berättar Henning Mankell om Afrika, bortom de ytliga beskrivningar som når oss.. En prosalyrisk berättelse som Mankell arbetade på i 25år, en personlig tankebok och ett brinnande försvar för en förtrampad kontinent

Tijdens een fietstocht door Zweden in 1941 noemen twee 17-jarige vriendinnen zich de Daisy Sisters en dromen van een opwindend leven, maar de dromen worden ruw verstoord.

Der erste Afrika-Roman des Bestsellerautors Elisabeth und Stefan hatten gegen Ende der Schulzeit eine flüchtige Beziehung. Jetzt treffen sie sich kurz nach dem Abitur auf dem Flug nach Afrika wieder. Während Stefan das Strandleben genießt und in einer Bar ein einheimisches Mädchen aufreißt, will Elisabeth das fremde Land verstehen. Sie freundet sich mit einem Lehrer aus ihrer Reisegruppe an, der ihr die historischen Hintergründe erklärt, und der einheimische Guide Ndou führt sie durch die ärmsten Viertel. Elisabeth lernt, die Welt und ihr eigenes Leben mit anderen Augen zu sehen.

Aan de Zweedse kust wordt een menselijke schedel gevonden. Wie is de dode? En waar is de rest van het lichaam? Officier van justitie Louise Rehnström leidt het moordonderzoek. De gevonden schedel zou die van Bengt Ingemarsson zijn, de 'grote weldoener' , die de gemeente kwam redden met zijn investeringsplannen, maar inmiddels met de ingelegde gelden verdwenen is.

In diesem Buch muss Kommissar Kurt Wallander zwei Mordfälle lösen. Im ersten Krimi stirbt ein Mann auf dem Rücksitz eines Taxis - vergiftet! Die Spur führt zum Strand. Dort muss er seinem Mörder begegnet sein. Der zweite Fall handelt von einem Fotografen, der in seinem Atelier tot aufgefunden wird. Es scheint keine Hinweise auf den Täter zu geben. Aber Wallander gibt so schnell nicht auf … Die beiden Krimis von Henning Mankell wurden von Johan Werkmäster in einem leicht verständlichen Schwedisch nacherzählt. Lättläst-Ausgaben im GROA Verlag: leicht zu verstehen, einfaches Vokabular, kurze Sätze

Chartres, printemps 1945 : Simone, qui fut la compagne d'un soldat allemand pendant l'Occupation, est tondue et menée en prison avec son enfant. Une justice expéditive doit décider de son sort. Sera-t-elle exécutée au même titre que les traîtres à la nation ? Est-elle une criminelle ou une victime ?

Wallanders Welt - das wahrscheinlich umfangreichste Werk über den schwedischen Kult-Kriminalkommissar Kurt Wallander. Der Autor Christian Gerlach hat dabei eng mit der Copenhagen Literary Agency - der Agentur von Henning Mankell - der Stadt Ystad, den Produktionsfirmen der Verfilmungen und den Verlagen der Bücher zusammengearbeitet. Einige Texte des Buches stammen von Henning Mankell selbst. Ein besonderes Highlight sind die exklusiv im Buch abgebildeten Fotos von Nille Leander die sowohl die Dreharbeiten der Romanverfilmungen mit Rolf Lassgård als auch die 1. und 2. Staffel von Mankells Wallander begleitet hat.

On Midsummer's Eve, three friends gather in a secluded meadow in Sweden. In the still-sun-lit northern night, they don costumes and begin to role play. But an uninvited guest soon brings their performance to a gruesome conclusion. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect. Three bullets, three corpses. The murderer then carefully photographs the grisly tableau. Meanwhile, the Ystad police station is experiencing a summer lull. Inspector Kurt Wallander is focusing on living healthier, but his peace of mind is shattered when a fellow officer is murdered. The police slowly realize how little they know about what is going on in their seemingly serene town. An unknown killer is on the loose, but their only lead is a photograph of three dead young people in costume. Forced to dig more deeply than he'd like into the personal life of one of his colleagues, Wallander's investigation uncovers something he could never have imagined.

Luty 1991 roku. Komisarz Wallander i jego współpracownicy z policji w Ystad otrzymują informację o makabrycznym odkryciu na odludnej plaży. W wyrzuconym przez fale pontonie znajdują dwóch martwych, elegancko ubranych młodych mężczyzn. Obaj, jak się wkrótce okazuje, należeli do łotewskiej mafii. Banalna z pozoru sprawa gangsterskich porachunków prowadzi Wallandera na trop międzynarodowego spisku. W Rydze, stolicy od niedawna niepodległego kraju, tworzącego zalążki demokracji, a w rzeczywistości ogarniętego nadzorem policyjnym, Wallander musi zmierzyć się z potężnym i nieuchwytnym przeciwnikiem. Kilka razy otrze się o śmierć i tylko jego obsesyjne poczucie sprawiedliwości nie pozwoli mu cofnąć się przed zagrożeniem. W tym porywającym thrillerze, pełnym niespodzianek i po mistrzowsku stopniowanego napięcia, Mankell kreśli mroczny i sugestywny obraz społeczeństwa w stanie chaosu. Pokazuje narodziny zła, które w swym nowym wcieleniu zawładnęło nie tylko Łotwą, ale i wszystkimi już suwerennymi państwami Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej.

Kurz nach acht Uhr abends betritt er sein Fotoatelier am Marktplatz, wenige Stunden später ist Simon Lamberg tot. Erschlagen, wie Kommissar Kurt Wallander bald feststellen muß. Dunkel erinnert er sich an den alteingesessenen Fotografen, hat er doch selbst – wie jeder hier in Ystad – schon einmal dessen Dienste in Anspruch genommen. Aber was für ein Mensch war Lamberg? Wer hatte ein Interesse an seinem Tod? Ein merkwürdiger Mord: Es finden sich keine Spuren von Gewaltanwendung an den Türen, und es scheint auch nichts gestohlen worden zu sein. Die Ermittlungen laufen im Kreis. Da stößt Wallander auf ein Fotoalbum mit makabrem Inhalt...

Ein Straßenkind erzählt vom ParadiesNelio erzählt um sein Leben. Der zehnjährige Straßenjunge liegt mit einer Schusswunde auf dem Dach eines Hauses in Mosambik und weiß, dass er sterben wird, sobald seine Geschichte zu Ende ist. Er schildert, wie die Banditen sein Dorf überfielen, wie er den Weg in die große Stadt fand und zum Anführer einer Bande von Straßenkindern wurde. Vor allem aber erzählt er vom Paradies, das auf keiner Landkarte verzeichnet ist und das man dennoch finden kann.Eindringlich und einfühlsam liest Edgar M. Böhlke die fesselnde Geschichte des Straßenkindes Nelio.(5 CDs, Laufzeit: 5h 21)

Ein rabenschwarzer Tag für Stefan Lindman: Zunächst erfährt der Kriminalbeamte aus Borås von seinem Arzt, dass er wahrscheinlich Zungenkrebs hat. Kurz darauf liest er in der Zeitung von der brutalen Folter und Ermordung seines ehemaligen Kollegen Herbert Molin, der sich nach seiner Pensionierung in die Einsamkeit der norrländischen Wälder zurückgezogen hatte. Obwohl Lindman nie besonders nah mit Molin war, erkennt er, dass dieser Rückzug aus Angst geschah. Doch wovor hatte Molin Angst? Der Mörder hinterließ als Hinweis auf den Dielen des Hauses blutige Spuren eines Tanzes: den letzten, tödlichen Tango, den er seinem Opfer anbot. Trotz der schockierenden Diagnose bricht Lindman seinen Erholungsurlaub ab und reist ins kalte Härjedalen, um Molins Mord aufzuklären. Gemeinsam mit dem leitenden Ermittlungsbeamten Giuseppe Larsson sieht er sich nicht nur mit provincialen Neidern konfrontiert, sondern auch mit Molins Vergangenheit als glühender Faschist und Söldner in Hitlers Waffen-SS. Während sie die Puzzlestücke des Verbrechens zusammensetzen, wird ihnen zunehmend bewusst, wie lebendig die nationalsozialistische Vergangenheit in der Gegenwart ist. Harmlos scheinende Nachbarn äußern faschistische Überzeugungen mit schockierender Selbstverständlichkeit, und radikal nationalistische Organisationen, wie jene zum "Wohl Schwedens", finden breite Unterstützung in der schwedischen Bevölkerung.

Notte di solstizio: tre giovani in una macchia isolata del bosco nei pressi di Osterlen. Qualcuno li spia. La loro festa si tinge di sangue. Intanto, la quiete della centrale di polizia di Ystad è spezzata dal ritrovamento del corpo di Svedberg, da anni collega di Wallander, ucciso da tre colpi di pistola sparati in pieno volto. Due foto tra le carte di Svedberg convincono Wallander dell'inesorabile intreccio tra i due casi di omicidio, ma l'assassino è sempre un passo in anticipo sulle mosse degli investigatori, che sono alle prese con gli inquietanti segreti di "uno di loro", un uomo che credevano di conoscere. E' impossibile intuirne i movimenti, prevedere chi sarà la sua prossima vittima: in una calma apparente cova la follia criminale.

Kurt Wallander is op vakantie in Denemarken. Hij maakt er een strandwandeling. Hij is moe, depressief en wil ontslag nemen uit het politiekorps van Ystad. Aan het thuisfront in Zweden vinden echter twee moorden plaats die hem op andere gedachten brengen. Het gaat om de 69-jarige advocaat Gustaf Torstensson en diens collega en zoon Sten, een jeugdvriend van Wallander.

À bientôt quinze ans, Joël retrouve enfin la trace de sa mère, qui l'a abandonné des années plus tôt. Elle vit à Stockholm, au bord de la mer, et Joël, la tête pleine de questions, a bien l'intention de lui rendre visite. Cela l'aidera-t-il à mettre de l'ordre dans son esprit? En tout cas, son père lui a promis qu'un jour, ils iraient vivre sur la côte, où il redeviendrait marin. C'est peut-être l'occasion pour Joël de réaliser son rêve en prenant la mer avec lui...

The redoubtable Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates an horrific crime in his Scandinavian homeland which is linked to a troubled apartheid-era South Africa. When the tenacious sleuth's search for the truth behind the execution-style killing of a Swedish housewife uncovers a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela, Wallander finds himself in a tangle with the South African secret service and a ruthless ex-KGB agent.

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V roku 1990 vyhral Mankell prvú cenu v súťaži o najlepšiu detskú knihu Pes, ktorý bežal za hviezdou, a červený bicykel. Príbeh o Joelovi, hlavnom hrdinovi knihy, má tri voľné pokračovania. Tiene hustnú na súmraku, Chlapec, ktorý spal so snehom v posteli a Cesta na koniec sveta.