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'One of the most ingenious crime writers around' Observer 'The figurehead of Nordic noir' Independent 'Mankell is in the first division of crime writing' The Times 'Extraordinary' Ian Rankin One day in 1947, Bertil Kras decides to leave his modest life in Stockholm and begin again - swapping his...

Joel är elva år och bor med sin pappa Samuel som är skogshuggare i ett litet norrländskt samhälle. Det finns några saker som Joel tycker är konstiga i livet: att inte veta varför och att inte kunna göra något åt det. Samuel var en gång en sjöman som reste på haven. Och en gång i tiden bodde Joels mamma fortfarande med dem. Samuel övergav havet. Och mamma övergav Samuel och Joel.

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...

When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him; he ate badly and drank alone at night. The Pyramid chronicles the events that led him to...

Crestfallen, dejected and spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance, a solicitor, seeks Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious...

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...

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. As a child Tobiasson-Svartman was fascinated by...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett. Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits...

A Treacherous Paradise sees Henning Mankell turn his talents for writing gripping thrillers to a world where power and powerlessness meet and passion is a dangerous commodity. Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia...

Tea-Bag, a young African girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Tania has made a long and dangerous journey to escape the horrors of human trafficking. Leyla has come with her family from Iran. All of them are facing different challenges in their new home...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The White Lioness by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett. In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation and no motive. Inspector...

The leader of a religious cult in Guyana instigates a mass suicide. He succeeds in killing himself and his whole flock of worshippers, save one. One man escapes. In the wood in the country land outside Ystad, the police make an horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett. Four nuns and a fifth woman are killed in a savage night-time attack in Africa. A year later, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher and discovers a...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of After the Fire by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett. 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...

Every morning Håkan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. However, one winter's day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval officer has vanished without trace. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation but he has...

Hannas opvækst er præget af kulde, sult og fattigdom. Skæbnen fører hende om bord på et dampskib på vej til Australien. Her arbejder hun som kok side om side med sin mand, som er styrmand. Ud for den afrikanske østkyst dør ægtemanden af en tropesygdom, og Hanna havner i kolonien Mozambique som ejer af et stort bordel. Selv betragter hun sig blot som en kvinde blandt kvinder, og hun er fuld af medfølelse for de prostituerede og deres elendighed.

Henning Mankell mit einem Roman voll politischer Sprengkraft, eindringlicher Aktualität und psychologischer Tiefe. Schweden nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Bertil Kras beschließt, Stockholm zu verlassen und in eine kleine Stadt in Norrland zu ziehen. Dort nimmt er einen Job im Sägewerk an und wird bald zum Gegenstand böswilliger Gerüchte: der Städter, der Neue, das Mitglied der Kommunistischen Partei. Als in einer Winternacht das Sägewerk unter ungeklärten Umständen niederbrennt, wird Bertil zum perfekten Sündenbock.

Miraklet er tredje bog i Henning Mankells serie om Joel. Joel er 13 år og forelsket i en pige, der er 10 år ældre end han selv. Han vil gerne se hende uden tøj på. Han vil også gerne tjene penge og beslutter sig for at blive Sveriges yngste rockmusiker.

Hunden som sprang mod en stjerne er første bog i Henning Mankells serie om Joel. I en lille nordsvensk by bor den 11-årige Joel og hans far, der er skovarbejder. Moderen har forladt dem, og den ensomme dreng søger desperat efter en dybere kontakt med faderen, men det er svært.

Miraklet er anden bog i Henning Mankells serie om Joel. 11-årige Joel bliver kørt over af en bus, men slipper uden en skramme. Som tak for miraklet vil han gøre en god gerning. Han vil skaffe en mand til den næseløse Gertrud.