Anna Gibson Books

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Advokát Dale Masterson je bohatým a úspěšným zástupcem ropných a uhelných společností. Když je jeho podřízená, Christine Larsonová, nalezena mrtvá, dostává se on i jeho firma pod drobnohled. Celý na první pohled jasný případ se však zamotá, když je Masterson ve svém sídle ubit k smrti a svědek vidí z místa prchat jeho syna. Brandon, posedlý záchranou planety, se k vraždě svého otce přizná – byla to pomsta za všechny jeho kontroverzní klienty, kteří ničí životní prostředí i životy obyčejných lidí. Právnička Amanda Jaffeová má obhajovat Brandona, ale případ se začíná komplikovat – pokud je Brandon nevinný a bere na sebe roli mučedníka, kdo tedy Mastersona zavraždil? A jaká je spojitost mezi vraždou Mastersona a Larsonové?

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