Henning Mankell

Before the Frost is a novel by Swedish crime-writer Henning Mankell. The main protagonist is Linda Wallander, daughter of Inspector Wallander. The book was to be the first in a three-book series with Linda as the main character. However Mankell abandoned the series after just one novel when the actress playing Linda …

From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the seventh riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, the basis for the PBS series staring Kenneth Branagh.A body is found at an ATM the apparent victim of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal …

Chronicler of the Winds is a story about an urchin set in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, written by Henning Mankell in 1995. The story is told by a baker, José M. V., who finds Nelio, the main character, shot on the stage of a theatre. He helps the child and listens to the story the child has to tell. The novel …