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 …

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 …

Daniel is a novel by Swedish writer Henning Mankell first published in Swedish in 2000 under the title Vindens son. The English translation by Steven T. Murray was published in September 2010.

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 …