Henning Mankell

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 …

The Return of the Dancing Master is a 2000 novel by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell. It was translated into English in 2003 by Laurie Thompson, and won the 2005 Gumshoe Award for Best European Crime Novel, presented by Mystery Ink. The central character of the book is Stefan Lindman, a young police officer with …

Fifth in the 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 …

Third in the Kurt Wallander series.The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough, the cops catch up with him. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, they realize that what …