Henning Mankell Book order (chronological)

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.

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 ?

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

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.

A fascinating memoir-of-sorts from the legendary writer and campaigner for human rights, QUICKSAND is a collection of micro-essays exploring what it is to be human, covering topics as varied as Henning's cancer diagnosis, art, jealousy, Ice Ages past and present, and the future of our planet.

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018The final novel from the bestselling author of the Inspector Wallander mysteriesFredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. Without a suspect, the police begin to think he started the fire himself.

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.

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.

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

A Treacherous Paradise sees Henning Mankell turn his talents for writing gripping thrillers to a world where power and powerlessness meet and passion is a dangerous commodity. Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia. Jumping ship at the African port of Lourenço Marques, Hanna decides to begin her life afresh. Stumbling across what she believes to be a down-at-heel hotel, Hanna becomes embroiled in a sequence of events that lead to her inheriting the most successful brothel in town. Uncomfortable with the attitudes of the white settlers, Hanna is determined to befriend the prostitutes working for her, and change life in the town for the better, but the distrust between blacks and whites, and the shadow of colonialism, lead to tragedy and murder.

Tom has come a long way since his days as an idealistic lawyer. Now he'll work for anyone - as long as the price is right.A suspected suicide bomber shot by UN security staff, a hidden brotherhood that has caused hundreds of unexplained deaths. Tom must unlock a secret buried for more than sixty years.

Henning Mankell kontynuuje swoją świetną passę, a jego kryminał stał się międzynarodowym wydarzeniem. W 2010 roku ukaże się w USA, Wielkiej Brytanii i Kanadzie, a polska premiera miała miejsce już w listopadzie 2009 roku. Mankell w swoich powieściach nie ogranicza się do analizy zbrodni, ale także porusza ważne tematy polityczne i społeczne. W tej książce odważnie podejmuje zagadnienie rozwoju światowego mocarstwa. Prawa do przekładu zakupiło wielu wydawców z całego świata. Akcja zaczyna się w styczniu 2006 roku, gdy w odludnej wiosce dochodzi do brutalnej masakry, która wywołuje medialną gorączkę w Szwecji. Dochodzenie nie przynosi rezultatów, a doświadczona sędzia Birgitta Roslin odkrywa swoje powiązania z dwiema ofiarami i postanawia prowadzić prywatne śledztwo. Wkrótce natrafia na trop Chińczyka, który może być odpowiedzialny za zbrodnię, co prowadzi ją do Pekinu. W stolicy Chin Birgitta poznaje rodzeństwo symbolizujące wewnętrzne rozdarcie kraju: komunistkę Hong Qui i jej brata Ya Ru, reprezentującego frakcję kapitalistyczną. Polityczne rozgrywki w Chinach splatają się z wydarzeniami w szwedzkiej wiosce, a Birgitta, mimo śmiertelnego niebezpieczeństwa, rozwiąże zagadkę masakry, przerywając łańcuch zbrodni.

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.

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.

Produktion: DLR/RB/SR 2008 66 Min. (Stereo) - Bearbeitung TheaterRegisseur(e): Rainer CluteGute Geister im Hintergrund: Ton: Thomas MonnerjahnTon: Susanne BeyerRegieassistenz: Roman NeumannÜbersetzer: Rainer CluteInhaltsangabe: Nach 60 Ehejahren will sie die Scheidung. "Ich will nicht länger mit einem Mann verheiratet sein, von dem ich seit 23 Jahren getrennt lebe." Oder sind es sogar 24 Jahre? Jedenfalls ist sie zu ihm gekommen, damit er die Papiere unterschreibt. Sofort. Er will nicht. Aus dem Alter ist er raus. 80jährige lassen sich nicht scheiden, sie reden über Betablocker und Diabetes, nicht über alte Rechnungen. Einiges sollte aber am Lebensende doch noch geklärt werden, denn Angst vorm Sterben haben beide. - "Wie geht es dir eigentlich?"Langfassung: 65.43Kurzfassung: 54.34Mitwirkende: Frau: Nadja TillerMann: Walter GillerVioline: Julia PriggeBrandenburgisches Kammerorchester

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.

On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Three months later, all Beck knows is that her name was Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people on a cruise. As the melancholic Beck narrows the list of suspects, he is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the victim, a free-spirited traveler with a penchant for casual sex, and to the psychopathology of a murderer with a distinctive--indeed, terrifying--sense of propriety.

"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.

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him. The figure approaching in the freezing cold is Harriet, the only woman he has ever loved, the woman he abandoned in order to go and study in America forty years earlier. She has sought him out in the hope that he will honour a promise made many years ago. Now in the late stages of a terminal illness, she wants to visit a small lake in northern Sweden, a place Welin's father took him once as a boy. He upholds his pledge and drives her to this beautiful pool hidden deep in the forest. On the journey through the desolate snow-covered landscape, Welin reflects on his impoverished childhood and the woman he later left behind. However, once there Welin discovers that Harriet has left the biggest surprise until last. Italian Shoes is as compelling as it is disturbing. Through his anti-hero Welin, Mankell tackles ageing and death with sensitivity and acuity, and as with the critically acclaimed Depths, delivers a moving tour-de-force on the frailty of mankind.

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.

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

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.

Svazek obsahuje zkrácené verze čtyř úspěšných románů světových autorů různých žánrů. Jednotlivé tituly jsou doplněny stručnými medailony autorů.

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.

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

Book by Henning Mankell

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.

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 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.

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.

»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.

Tea-Bag, a young African 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. Leyla 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 stockbroker, 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 next work, but soon discovers 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 our understanding of those left on the margins of our society.

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.

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.

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.

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

The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Kurt Wallander's beginnings. • The mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander 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 detective with his marriage on the brink, as a newly separated investigator solving the brutal murder of a local photographer, and finally as a veteran detective, with his signature methodical and instinctive work style, discovering unexpected connections between a downed plane and the assassination of a pair of spinster sisters. In these five riveting tales we watch Kurt Wallander come into his own not only as a detective but as a human being

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 .

Lättläst Fotografen Simon Lamberg hittas död, ihjälslagen i sin ateljé. Några timmar senare ringer telefonen hemma hos kommissarie Kurt Wallander. Han har en enda uppgift: Att ta fast mördaren. Henning Mankell är en av Sveriges mest populära författare. Han har skrivit många kända böcker om polisen Kurt Wallander.

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.

Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi dirver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked - somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective. The search for answers leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow these criminals seem always to know the police's next move. Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them In their gripping police procedural about our increasing vulnerability in the modern digitalised world.

This novel brings to life a girl's experience of civil war, life in a refugee village, the loss of both legs in a landmine accident and her long struggle to survive. schovat popis

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.

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.

Kurt Wallander is back, and this time he must discover why a girl has doused herself in petrol and burned herself to death, and solve the mystery behind the savage murder of a former government minister.

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.

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.

As his personal life falls apart, Swedish Police Inspector Kurt Wallander is confronted with a hideous crime which has devastating repercussions. An elderly couple are brutally murdered in their remote farmhouse and the suspicion falls on the immigrant community.

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.

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

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

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.