Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia. Jumping ship at the African port of Lourenço Marques, Hanna decides to begin her life afresh. Stumbling across what she believes to be a down-at-heel hotel, Hanna becomes embroiled in a sequence of events that lead to her inheriting the most successful brothel in town. Uncomfortable with the attitudes of the white settlers, Hanna is determined to befriend the prostitutes working for her, and change life in the town for the better, but the distrust between blacks and whites, and the shadow of colonialism, lead to tragedy and murder

Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if necessary. He lives a quiet life. Until he wakes up one night to find his house on fire. Fredrik escapes just in time, wearing two left-footed wellies, as neighbouring islanders arrive to help douse the flames. All that remains in the morning is a stinking ruin and evidence of arson. The house that has been in his family for generations and all his worldly belongings are gone. He cannot think who would do such a thing, or why. Without a suspect, the police begin to think he started the fire himself

After nearly thirty years in the same job, Inspector Kurt Wallander is tired, restless, and itching to make a change. He is taken with a certain old farmhouse, perfectly situated in a quiet countryside with a charming, overgrown garden. There he finds the skeletal hand of a corpse in a shallow grave. Wallander’s investigation takes him deep into the history of the house and the land, until finally the shocking truth about a long-buried secret is brought to light

El inspector Kurt Wallander atraviesa uno de los momentos más sombríos de su vida cuando tiene que ponerse al frente de la investigación del asesinato de un apacible matrimonio de ancianos en una granja de Lenarp. Wallander deberá enfrentarse a un asesino muy especial, de una sangre fría asombrosa, y también a una comunidad irascible cargada de prejuicios raciales. El asesinato es un acto social. Un acto terrible que exige la interacción de al menos dos personas: víctima y asesino. El cuadro se completa añadiendo un tercer elemento: el detective, que debe descubrir la verdad y restaurar el orden. Quizá por esa razón, la novela negra deriva con tanta facilidad hacia el comentario social. Un asesinato y su investigación ofrecen una oportunidad única para estudiar los modos y uso de la sociedad en curso. Se puede pensar en el detective clásico que investigaba asesinatos casi, digamos, cordiales. En una novela de Agatha Christie se asesinaba conservando en todo momento las reglas del decoro. Por lo general, no había ensañamiento más allá de lo estrictamente necesario para causar la muerte. Incluso en `Asesinato En El Orient Express`, el ensañamiento tenía precisamente como propósito cumplir un ritual social. Y la existencia de esos rituales permitía al detective resolver el crimen. Ante un asesinato se empezaba tirando de familiares y conocidos, explorando la malla de motivos y oportunidades, buscando a aquellos, que por lógica, más se beneficiarían de la muerte. Los asesinatos, simplemente, no se producían en vacío. Pero los tiempos cambian, y llegan nuevas formas de asesinar. Y a dos de ellas se enfrenta Kurt Wallander, policía de los de antes, recién separado, al que su hija no le habla, nada más iniciarse `Asesinos Sin Rostro`, un policía viejo en un mundo nuevo. Son crímenes horrendos, como todos, pero de un horror acentuado por lo que tienen de arbitrarios, de ilógicos, de mecánicos, de salvajes. El primero implica a una pareja de ancianos del campo de Suecia que es torturada y asesinada salvajemente. Parece que no hay motivo y el asesino, en un detalle estremecedor, tuvo la sangre fría de alimentar al caballo. Para complicar más aún la situación, la única pista es la palabra pronunciada por la mujer poco antes de morir: `extranjero`. Y de un singular a un plural no hay más que un paso. De un `extranjero` asesino a `todos los extranjeros` son asesino sólo media un abismo lógico que muchos están dispuestos a saltar sin problemas. Nace así el segundo crimen, en el que el orden social se desmorona dejando paso a la xenofobia más radical. El racismo, la xenofobia, e incluso el fascismo con su mecanización de la muerte, son los temas de esta novela. Narrada con convicción y habilidad, va desgranando las diversas vueltas de esta investigación doble, llena de callejones sin salida, donde la intuición más que la lógica parece ser la aliada fiel del detective. En esta novela de tantos personajes, uno destaca especialmente. Se trata de Rydberg, un detective particularmente minucioso, protagonista de algunas de las mejores escenas, que no deja que los sentimientos le cieguen ante la realidad que tiene ante los ojos. Es un hombre que simplemente no cae ni en un extremo ni en el otro. El personaje protagonista, Kurt Wallander, sostiene toda la narración y es realmente su problemática personal lo que impulsa la novela. Enfrentado a unos crímenes que no entiende y con una vida personal desbaratada, es su lucha por resolver esos dos aspectos lo que mantiene la atención del lector. Al final, la recompensa no está tanto en la resolución de los crímenes, como en comprobar la reacción del policía ante el mundo nuevo que descubrió al entrar por primera vez en aquella habitación salpicada de sangre por todas partes. `Asesinos Sin Rostro` es una novela ágil y efectiva, apasionante en la interacción de los personajes (porque realmente acción física hay muy poca), que no vacila en reflexionar sobre los cambios sociales de su país de origen y, por extensión, en el resto de Europa. El mundo simplemente cambia, y las formas de matar también, pero un asesinato sigue siendo un asesinato

In woodland outside Ystad, the police make a horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victim’s side, the pages marked with scribbled corrections. A string of macabre incidents, including attacks on domestic animals, have been taking place, and Inspector Wallander fears that these disturbances could be the prelude to attacks on humans on an even more alarming scale. Linda Wallander, in preparation to join the police force, arrives at Ystad station. Exhibiting some of the hallmarks of her father — the maverick approach, the flaring temper — she becomes entangled in a case involving a group of religious extremists who are bent on punishing the world’s sinners

"Nelio is dead. And however unlikely it may sound, it seemed to me that he died without once being afraid. How can that be possible?"-from Chronicler of the Winds World famous for his Kurt Wallander mysteries, Henning Mankell has been published in thirty-five countries, with more than 25 million copies of his books in print. In Chronicler of the Winds, he gives us something different: a beautifully crafted novel that is a testament to the power of storytelling itself. On the rooftop of a theater in an African port, a ten-year-old boy lies slowly dying of bullet wounds. He is Nelio, a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer and a prophet, and possessed of a strangely ancient wisdom. One of the millions of poor people "forced to eat life raw," Nelio tells his unforgettable story over the course of nine nights. After bandits cruelly raze his village, he joins the legions of abandoned children living in the city's streets. An act of the imagination, an effort to prove to his comrades that life must be more than mere survival, cuts short Nelio's life. Already published in thirteen countries, Chronicler of the Winds was short-listed for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature and was nominated for the Swedish Publishers Association's August Prize

In 1875 Hans Bengler, a young entomologist, leaves Sweden for the expedition of a lifetime to the Kalahari Desert where he hopes to find a previously undiscovered insect to name after himself and advance his career. Instead, after his long and arduous journey through the sands, he finds a small boy, whose tribe has been decimated by European raiders. Accustomed to collecting specimens, Bengler decides to adopt the boy and names him Daniel. He takes the traumatised child home with him to Sweden and plans to ‘civilise’ him. But Daniel cannot slip into an alien culture, and a new life in the cold and snow, so easily. He yearns desperately for the desert and his real family, who visit him in his dreams. His only consolation comes from his friendship with a vulnerable young girl called Sanna, who is also an outsider in her community. But even this bond is destined to be violently broken, as Daniel’s isolation and increasing desperation lead to a chilling tragedy. As well as an acute psychological depiction of the life of a child thrown into extraordinary circumstances, in Daniel the acclaimed writer Henning Mankell also gives us a compelling and disturbing story of the dangerous gaps and misunderstandings that can exist between individuals and cultures

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerges from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board is Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. The engineer is fascinated by measurement, and his instinct for his profession is reflected in the comfortable domesticity he enjoys with his wife. Close to the waters where soundings are taken Tobiasson-Svartman alights on a barren skerry, presumed uninhabited, and is surprised to discover there a young woman. Despite her almost feral appearance, something about her strikes him. The mission is a success and the Svea returns to Gothenburg. Tobiasson-Svartman, however, remains haunted by this chance encounter; his equilibrium has been disturbed, and he feels compelled to return. In Depths Mankell confirms his status as a writer of great magnitude. By delving deep into the male psyche, he has produced a novel as tense and compelling as the Wallander series, but also powerful, moving and ultimately tragic

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Desde la fría región sueca de Norrland, el joven Hans Olofson viaja a Zambia para visitar la tumba de un misionero legendario. Deja atrás una infancia y una adolescencia marcadas por la ausencia de la madre y, después, por la muerte de dos personas muy allegadas. La belleza de Zambia, y sobre todo su misterio, lo hechizan hasta el punto de permanecer en el país durante dieciocho largos años, al principio movido por los valores de la cooperación y la solidaridad. Poco a poco, sin embargo, convertido en granjero, la realidad africana le impone una visión de la vida completamente distinta, mientras el racismo de los blancos y el odio de los negros va consumiéndolo. Un día, tras encontrar cruelmente asesinados a sus vecinos blancos, comprende que sus días están contados. ¿Se quedará a luchar o arrojará la toalla? Hans sabe que quizá pueda escapar de la suerte que han corrido sus vecinos, pero no de su propia desesperación

Early one morning, a small-town farmer discovers that his neighbors have been victims of a brutal attack during the night. An old man has been bludgeoned to death, and his tortured wife lies dying before the farmer’s eyes. The only clue is the single word she utters before she dies: “foreign.” In charge of the investigation is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local cop whose personal life is in a shambles. His family is falling apart, he’s gaining weight, and he’s drinking too much, but he is tenacious and levelheaded in his sleuthing. he and his colleagues must contend with a wave of violent xenophobia as they search for the killers. Still, things get complicated when he has to deal with an eruption of violent antiforeigner sentiment, as well as a tough-minded — and very attractive — female district attorney, as he searches for the killers

Ystad, Sweden. A man stops at an ATM during his evening walk and inexplicably falls dead to the ground. Two teenage girls brutally murder a taxi driver. They are quickly apprehended, shocking local policemen with their complete lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without a trace. A few days later a blackout cuts power to a large swath of the country. When a serviceman arrives at the malfunctioning power substation, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander knows these events must be linked, but he has to figure out how and why. His endeavors are made all the more difficult when he discovers personal and professional betrayals within his own team. Lonely and frustrated, he begins to doubt the worth of continuing his work as a detective. The search for answers eventually leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden by the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow, these criminals always seem to know the police’s next move. How can a small group of detectives unravel a plot designed to wreak havoc on a worldwide scale? And will they solve the riddle in time?

A non fiction book A powerful, moving and tragic account of the families shattered and children orphaned as a result of the spread of HIV and, through the Memory Books project, a hope for the future. Henning Mankell is best known for his highly successful crime novels, but few people are aware of his work with Aids charities in Africa and how he actively promotes and encourages the writing of memory books throughout the country. Memory Books is a project through which the HIV-infected parents of today are encouraged to write portraits of their lives and testaments of their love for their orphans of tomorrow. Through a combination of words and drawings they can leave a legacy, a hope that future generations may not suffer the same heartbreaking fate. In I Die, but the Memory Lives on, this master storyteller has written a fable to illustrate the importance of books as a means of education, of preserving memories and of sharing life. In a very personal account he tells of his own fears and anxieties for the sufferers of HIV and Aids and, drawing on his experiences in many parts of Africa, proposes a way to help. This fable, The Mango Plant, comprises most of the book and is followed by factual afterwords from Dr Rachel Baggaley (Head of the Christian Aid HIV Unit) and Anders Wijkman (Member of the European Parliament, formerly Assistant Secretary General of the UN, and board member of Plan Sweden), and ends with a template for a memory book as an appendix. The problem of Aids has been kept largely under control in Europe and is not therefore an issue at the forefront of our minds, but in the Third World it is a very different story. Lack of education about the disease and lack of money to buy life-prolonging drugs for existing sufferers have turned the problem into a plague of biblical proportions. 30 million people are HIV positive in Africa, almost 39 percent of the adult population in countries such as Botswana. In Zimbabwe life expectancy has now sunk to below 40 years of age, by 2010 it is predicted to fall to 30 years. As thousands die in their prime, there begins a shortage of teachers, labourers, and essential personnel that enable a country to run efficiently, not to mention the 14 million children that have been orphaned by HIV/Aids since the 1980s. These children are taken out of school in order to care for the sick and elderly. A lack of education and continued poverty perpetuates the problem. Because levels of literacy are so low, the memory books also contain photographs (Mankell campaigns for cheap disposable cameras) and anything else that will evoke a memory, whether it be a drawing, a crushed flower or a lock of hair, anything that the orphan will relate to and inspire them to try the best they can to create a future. Henning Mankell was first introduced to the Memory Book Project by Plan, a child-focused international development organisation, who had established the scheme in Uganda. UNAIDS estimate 1 million people in Uganda are infected with the disease and 200,000 have died from Aids-related illnesses. Since the outbreak in 1978, it is estimated 1.2 million children have been orphaned in Uganda alone. Plan Uganda encourages parents with the disease to create a memory book about their family history, matters of death, separation and sexuality for the child or children they will leave behind. There are numerous worldwide charities and organisations working to fight the spread of HIV/Aids – further information and contact details can be found at the end of I Die, but the Memory Lives on. Henning Mankell has kindly agreed to donate the royalties from I Die, but the Memory Lives on to an Aids charity of his choice. The publication of I Die, but the Memory Lives on will raise awareness of this international problem, which, though it may not always be on the front pages of our newspapers, must always be on our minds until something has truly changed for the better

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

Joel is fifteen and has left school, wanting to become a merchant sailor and travel far away from his home town in Northern Sweden. But first he must face up to the past and meet his mother who ran off when he was little. After such a long time how will Joel and his dad cope with such a reunion and will Joel ever sail the seas as he dreams...?

It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But unknown to them, they are being watched. With a bullet each, all three are murdered. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is this the same killer, and what could the connection be? In this investigation, Wallander is always, tantalisingly, One Step Behind

Joel thinks nothing’s going on in his small town. But he’s wrong. One day, a miracle happens to him. He’s very nearly run over by a bus, but is miraculously unhurt. Shouldn’t he show gratitude somehow? Surely a good deed of some sort is in order. But what?

Lukas adores his kitten, named Night. So when Night disappears Lukas is devastated and spends days searching for his pet. Eventually, with the help of friends and family, he begins to learn that sometimes we have to let go of the ones we love

Second in the Kurt Wallander series.On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is heinous. But after the victims are traced to the Baltic state of Latvia, a country gripped by the upheaval of Soviet disintegration, Major Liepa of the Riga police takes over the investigation. Thinking his work done, Wallander slips into routine once more, until suddenly, he is called to Riga and plunged into an alien world where shadows are everywhere, everything is watched, and old regimes will do anything to stay alive

Hans Olofson is the son of a Swedish lumberjack. His childhood was unsettled: an alcoholic father, and a mother disappeared, only alive in old photographs. His adolescence was no easier as he lost both his best friend and his lover tragically. Alone and adrift, as a young man his only desire is to fulfil his lover’s dream and visit the grave of a legendary missionary who survived alone in the remote hills of Northern Zambia. On reaching Africa, Olofson is struck by its beauty and mystery. After fulfilling his initial quest, an opportunity of employment in the region tempts him to stay. Time passes quickly. Though dismayed by the attitude of the white population to their adopted country, which is compounded by their vulnerability to alcohol and malaria, he is interested enough to take up sole responsibility for the farm he manages. For almost two decades Hans Olofson battles with a hostile environment and a placid, but resistant workforce. Set in the 1970s and 1980s, The Eye of the Jeopard explores the relationship between the white farmers and their native workers. Through Olofson’s descent into near mental collapse it becomes clear that many years spent in a foreign land do not necessarily breed an understanding of its people: a handful of generations of white settlers cannot change a continent underpinned by myth and superstition. The Eye of Leopard is a first-rate and original psychological thriller delving deep into the mind of a man lost in an unknown world

One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a crime unprecedented in Swedish history. When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved and decides to investigate. A nineteenth-century diary and a red silk ribbon found in the forest nearby are the only clues. What Birgitta eventually uncovers leads her into an international web of corruption and a story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years, linking China and the USA of the 1860s with modern-day Beijing, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and coming to a shocking climax in London’s Chinatown

Staying alive becomes a precarious task for Inspector Kurt Wallander as he plays both hunter and hunted in a terrifying game of money and power. Crestfallen, dejected and spiralling into an alcohol fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Wallander has made up his mind to quit the force for good. When an old acquaintance, a solicitor, seeks his help to investigate the suspicious circumstances surrounding his fathers death, Wallander doesn't want to know. But when the solicitor also turns up dead, shot three times, Wallander realises that he was wrong not to listen. Against his better judgment, he returns to work to head what may now have become a double murder case. A rookie female detective has joined the force in his absence and he adopts the role of her mentor as they fight to unravel the mystery. An enigmatic business tycoon who hides behind an entourage of brusque secretaries and tight security seems to be the link between the two deaths. But while Wallander is on the trail of the killer, someone is on the trail of Wallander, and closing in fast

A collection of stories The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander's beginnings, told in five gripping short mysteries. "What happened to Wallander before the series began?…Several years ago, right when I was done with the fifth book, Sidetracked, I realized that I had started to write stories in my head that took place long before the start of the series." – from Henning Mankell's foreword At last, a key addition to the Kurt Wallander mystery series: the book of short mysteries that takes us back to the beginning. Here we meet Wallander the twenty-one-year-old patrolman on his first criminal investigation, Wallander the young father facing an unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, Wallander on the brink of middle age solving a case of poisoning, the newly separated Wallander investigating the murder of a local photographer, and Wallander the veteran detective discovering unexpected connections between a downed mystery plane and the assassination of a pair of spinster sisters. Over the course of these five mysteries, he comes into his own as a murder detective, defined by his simultaneously methodical and instinctive work, and is increasingly haunted from witnessing the worst aspects of an atomized society. Written from the unique perspective of an author looking back upon his own creation to discover his origins, these mysteries are vintage Mankell. Essential reading for all Wallander fans, The Pyramid is also a wonderful showcase for Mankell's powers as a writer

Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, lives alone in a remote cottage in northern Sweden. Two things seem to consume him; his passion for the tango, and an obsession with the “demons” he believes to be pursuing him. Early one morning shots shatter Molin’s window... by the time his body is found it is almost unrecognisable. Stefan Lindman is another off-the-job police officer. On extended sick leave due to having cancer of the tongue Lindman hears about the murder of his former colleague and, in a bid to take his mind off his own problems, decides to investigate. As his investigation becomes increasingly complex it is with both horror and disbelief that Lindman uncovers links to a global web of neo-Nazi activity

At 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial accident. The local newspaper reports him dead. But they are mistaken. Because Oskar Johansson is a born survivor. Though crippled, he finds the strength to go on living and working. The Rock Blaster charts his long professional life — his hopes and dreams, sorrows and joys. His relationship with the woman whose love saved him, with the labour movement that gave him a cause to believe in, and with his children, who do not share his ideals. Henning Mankell’s first published novel is steeped in the burning desire for social justice which informed his bestselling crime novels. It is written with scalpel-like precision, at once poetic and insightful in its depiction of a true working-class hero

Tea-Bag, a young African girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Tanya has made a dangerous journey from Eastern Europe to escape the misery of life in a brothel. Leyla, the only girl who lives in Sweden legally, has travelled 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 stockbroker, 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 next work, but he soon discovers that they have very different ideas about what role he will play in their lives. 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 our understanding of those left on the margins of society.　

On a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation into his disappearance falls under the jurisdiction of the Stockholm police. It has nothing to do with Wallander — officially. But von Enke is his daughter’s future father-in-law. And so, with his inimitable disregard for normal procedure, Wallander is soon interfering in matters that are not his responsibility, making promises he won’t keep, telling lies when it suits him — and getting results. But the results hint at elaborate Cold War espionage activities that seem inextricably confounding, even to Wallander, who, in any case, is troubled in more personal ways as well. Negligent of his health, he’s become convinced that, having turned sixty, he is on the threshold of senility. Desperate to live up to the hope that a new granddaughter represents, he is continually haunted by his past. And looking toward the future with profound uncertainty, he will have no choice but to come face-to-face with his most intractable adversary: himself

Joel is growing up. He is getting interested in girls. Just look at his New Year’s resolutions: 1 — to see a naked lady, 2 — to toughen himself up so that he can live to be a hundred, and 3 — to see the sea. They all look pretty impossible for a motherless boy in Northern Sweden. Especially as his sailor dad is keen to drown his sadness in drink, and all the local matrons are narrowly watching the pair of them. And then he saves old Simon from a frozen death in the woods, and Joel becomes a local hero

Fredrik Wellin, médico retirado, vive solo en una isla cercana a la costa sueca, hasta que la llegada de un antiguo amor al que abandonó en el pasado irrumpe en su monótono pero buscado aislamiento. Se trata de Harriet, quien gravemente enferma ha venido a pedirle que cumpla la antigua promesa de juventud de llevarla a una laguna al norte del país. Harriet trae consigo a Louise, una hija de ambos, de cuya existencia nada sabía. Obligado, ahora, a asistir al lento final de Harriet y a crear unos vínculos paterno-filiales con quien, en realidad, es una desconocida, Fredrik iniciará un viaje hacia su propio dolor. Los errores del pasado sepultados en la soledad de la isla reavivan sus remordimientos. Entre ellos, el terrible secreto que lo alejó de la profesión y por el que decidió huir del mundo

Зима на початку XXI століття. Старший чоловік піднімається з ополонки й зауважує на кризі жінку з ходунцями. Хто вона? Як вона сюди потрапила? Так починається історія про Фредріка та Гаррієт. Колись давно вони були безтямно закохані. А тепер Фредрік живе на невеликому острові на краю архіпелагу в оточенні тиші, пса, кота й мурашника у вітальні. Страшна таємниця, фатальна помилка перетворила його на відлюдкуватого самітника. Важко хвора Гаррієт вимагає, щоб Фредрік виконав дану їй колись обіцянку. Вони вирушають у спільну, подекуди приголомшливу подорож, у якій їм судилося зустріти чимало загадкових людей, які ховаються під поверхнею спокійної шведської реальності. У романі «Італійські черевики» Геннінґа Манкелля смерть і біль тісно переплітаються з радістю й любов’ю до життя

В ЮАР группа фанатиков готовит покушение на видного политического деятеля. Тем временем в Швеции исчезает маклер по недвижимости Луиза Окерблум. Вскоре из колодца вылавливаю тело с пулей во лбу. В прошлом жертвы нет ни одной зацепки, и следствие топчется на месте. Но вот полицейские находят неподалеку от места преступления отрезанный палец чернокожего мужчины. Комиссару Валландеру мало что известно об апартеиде и международной политике. И уж тем более он понятия не имеет, что может связывать бывший КГБ и белых националистов из ЮАР. Однако на сей раз в его руках не участь нескольких человек, а судьба целого государства

На уединенном, окруженном лесами хуторе совершается чудовищное по жестокости убийство старика – бывшего полицейского. В расследование по собственной инициативе включается Стефан Линдман, коллега убитого, ожидающий операции по удалению раковой опухоли. Но, пытаясь таким образом убежать от собственного страха и смятения, он неожиданно для себя открывает иной ужас: оказывается, совсем рядом с ним и убийца, мстящий за зло, совершенное полвека назад, и нынешние наследники этого зла

Две юные девушки совершают жестокое убийство таксиста. Той, что постарше, удается сбежать из следственной тюрьмы, и вскоре ее обугленный труп находят на трансформаторной подстанции. Тем временем неизвестные похищают из морга тело умершего от инфаркта мужчины, оставив на его месте электромагнитное реле с той самой подстанции, где нашли девушку. Комиссар Курт Валландер уверен, что между убийством таксиста и смертью Тиннеса Фалька, консультанта по информационным технологиям, существует связь. С помощью только что вышедшего из тюрьмы молодого хакера комиссар противостоит вездесущему и невидимому врагу, угрожающему финансовым центрам планеты

Когда к побережью близ городка Истад прибивает спасательный плот без опознавательных знаков и с двумя трупами на борту, комиссар полиции Курт Валландер еще не знает, что это — первое звено в цепи загадочных происшествий и международных осложнений. Эта цепь приведет шведского полицейского на мрачные улицы Риги 1991 года и сделает непосредственным участником исторической драмы — со слежкой и погонями, убийствами и поиском пропавшей папки с компроматом. А кроме того, закончив свое второе расследование, Валландер вдруг обнаружит, что не на шутку влюбился

На исходе холодной январской ночи в шведской деревушке произошло кошмарное массовое убийство. Судья Биргитта Руслин, узнав, что среди погибших стариков были и приемные родители ее покойной матери, заинтересовалась расследованием, однако полицейские не принимают ее всерьез. Случайно Биргитте удалось напасть на «китайский след» в этом загадочном деле, а вскоре судьба привела ее в Пекин, где она мечтала побывать еще со времен своей бунтарской юности…

Роман из сериала о шведском полицейском Валландере. Следователь по уголовным делам разыскивает маньяка, совершившего кошмарные убийства-жертвоприношения. Но в арсенале полицейского нестандартные ходы, обостренная интуиция и немного удачи в распутывании детективных головоломок

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Археолог Луиза Кантор с раскопок в Греции возвращается в Стокгольм. Не дозвонившись сыну, она едет к нему домой и находит его мертвым. Все указывает на самоубийство, но Луиза и ее бывший муж Арон уверены, что Хенрик убит. Поиски приводят Луизу в запретный мир, где циничные дельцы в поисках наживы проводят опыты над зараженными СПИДом людьми. Вскоре Луиза понимает, что, как и Хенрик, она рискует жизнью. Для тех, кто пустился в это путешествие, нет пути назад

Летней ночью накануне Иванова дня в Хагестадском национальном парке собирается группа молодежи. Две девушки и парень, нарядившиеся в костюмы восемнадцатого века, пьют вино и распевают старинные застольные песни. В разгар веселья кто-то методично расстреливает из-за кустов всех троих. Трупы молодых людей бесследно исчезают, а через два месяца вдруг обнаруживаются на месте убийства. Что это – выходка сумасшедшего или хладнокровный вызов, брошенный полиции, которая не в состоянии раскрыть преступление?

Зимним днем во время ежедневной прогулки в лесу бесследно исчезает пенсионер, в прошлом морской офицер высокого ранга, Хокан фон Энке, а следом — его жена. Для шестидесятилетнего комиссара полиции Курта Валландера это дело оказывается еще и личным: пропавшие — свекор и свекровь его дочери Линды, дед и бабка ее маленькой дочки. Запутанные нити, похоже, ведут в прошлое, в эпоху холодной войны. Кажется, неугомонный комиссар вплотную подобрался к шпионской тайне. Тем временем на него самого надвигается непредвиденная опасность

Лидер религиозной секты а Гайане провоцирует массовое самоубийство. Ему удается убить самого себя и всех своих последователей, кроме одного. Позже в лесу в Истаде полицейские обнаруживают отсеченную голову и кисти рук со сцепленными словно в молитве пальцами. Рядом они находят Библию, все страницы которой испещрены поправками. Взявшись за расследование этого преступления, Линда Валландер, дочь известного полицейского Курта Валландера, вступает в борьбу с группой религиозных фанатиков, возомнивших себя творцами Божьей воли на земле

Инспектор Курт Валандер разследва серия показни брутални убийства. Явно убиецът изпраща някакво послание. Между жертвите на пръв поглед няма нищо общо. Интуицията отвежда Валандер до истината: убитите съвсем не са били светци. Колкото и странно да изглежда, следите водят към жена. Замесените са четири, но напълно неочаквано разкритията водят към пета — неизвестна жена. Има ли обаче право човек да се поставя над закона и да раздава правосъдие? Хенинг Манкел е роден през 1948 г. в Северна Швеция. 17-годишен заминава за Стокхолм и става асистент-режисьор в Riks Theater. По-късно свързва трайно живота и творчеството си с Мозамбик. Книгите му са спечелили множество награди. С хонорарите си Манкел финансира развитието на театъра в африканската държава и подпомага организацията „Лекари без граници“. Живее със съпругата си Ева Бергман както в Швеция така и в Мапуто, Мозамбик. Криминалната поредица с Курт Валандер е преведена в 34 страни, продадена в милиони тиражи и многократно е филмирана за киното и телевизията

Не каждый день в шведской глубинке падают самолеты. А тут еще выясняется, что самолет этот официально не существует и в нем обнаружены два трупа. Инспектору Валландеру и без того не дают покоя собственные проблемы. Но когда оказывается, что авиакатастрофа связана с двумя другими странными преступлениями, он окончательно лишается сна

Роман из сериала о полицейском Валландере, который расследует множество жестоких убийств, происходящих в шведском городе. Сериал переведен на 26 языков. В 1999 году роман получил в Германии сразу три премии: «Бестселлер № 1» фестиваля «Немецкая весна-99»; «Книга года» и «Лучший криминальный роман». Книги о шведском полицейском Валландере пользуются огромным успехом на Западе, неизменно становятся бестселлерами, экранизируются… Секрет такой популярности достаточно прост. В арсенале сыщика, помимо классических приемов расследования, нестандартные ходы в хитросплетениях сюжетных головоломок, обостренная интуиция и немного удачи, неизменно сопутствующей работе настоящего профессионала. Умение разобраться в психологии противника помогает ему добиться успеха. Все это позволяет поставить Валландера в один ряд с такими классическими персонажами, как Пуаро, Мегре, Пери Мейсон. Расследования Валландера, кроме занимательной криминальной интриги, дадут читателям и любопытные подробности из жизни сегодняшней Швеции

Независимая и демократичная, богатая и процветающая, спокойная и сытая – такой всегда являлась Швеция в представлениях иностранцев. Однако со временем стало ясно, что эта благолепная картина – лишь фасад, лоск на котором тщательно наводили в стране в течение многих лет. Как и везде в мире, здесь широко распространены и процветают многие человеческие пороки. Величайшие мастера жанра предупреждают в своих рассказах о страшных последствиях гнева, жестокости, алчности, зависти, темной страсти, ксенофобии и других «цветов зла». Оса Ларссон, Ингер Фриманссон, Валё и Шеваль, Манкель и Нессер… И конечно же, сам Стиг Ларссон!

Первый роман цикла о полицейском следователе Курте Валландере открывается мрачной картиной: зимней ночью в маленькой деревушке зверски убит старик фермер, на шее его жены затянута удавка. Последним словом умирающей женщины было «иностранный». До поры для полиции это слово будет оставаться единственной зацепкой. А тем временем оно же, попав в прессу, провоцирует новое жестокое убийство — теперь уже в лагере для беженцев. Кто его совершил? Кому и зачем понадобилось убивать беззащитных стариков? И правда ли, что в этом деле имеется иностранный след? Валландеру и его коллегам предстоит проверить и отбросить немало версий, прежде чем убийца обретет наконец лицо

Застрелив при задержании человека, Курт Валландер впадает в депрессию и решает уйти из полиции. Когда давно знакомый ему адвокат просит Валландера разобраться в подозрительных обстоятельствах смерти его отца, тот категорически отказывается. Но вскоре самого адвоката убивают тремя выстрелами, и Валландер понимает, что совершил непростительную ошибку. Он возвращается к работе, чтобы расследовать уже двойное убийство. Однако начав охоту за преступником, инспектор сам становится объектом охоты