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 …

One Step Behind is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, the seventh in his acclaimed Inspector Wallander series.

From the dean of Scandinavian noir and internationally bestselling author, Henning Mankell, comes a lyrical and evocative novel about a Swedish naval engineer during World War I and his devastating plunge into obsession. In 1914 Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is covertly measuring the depths of Swedish coastal waters. A man …