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On croit bien connaître Kurt Wallander, enquêteur solitaire hanté par la mort. Savons-nous comment le jeune homme hésitant et sans méthode, qui se demandait s'il serait un jour un bon flic, est deven

Schweden, Anfang 20. Jahrhundert: Die junge mittellose Hanna muss als alteste von funf Geschwistern ihr Heimatland verlassen und kommt in die portugiesische Kolonie Mocambique. Sie wird dort ein Vermogen erben, ein Bordell leiten und einige Jahre spater spurlos wieder verschwinden. Auf der Grundlage weniger uberlieferter Dokumente hat Bestsellerautor Henning Mankell einen spannenden, farbenprachtigen Roman uber eine auergewohnliche Frau geschrieben, die ihren eigenen Weg zwischen den weien Rassisten und der schwarzen Bevolkerung in Afrika finden muss.

En octobre 1914, la Suède est sur le point d'entrer en guerre. Afin d'améliorer la défense des côtes du pays, le capitaine Lars Tobiasson-Svartman est chargé d'une mission secrète : contrôler les rou

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 Wallander and his team are called in to investigate.As Inspector Wallander is introduced to this missing person''s case he has a gut feeling that the victim will never be found alive, but he has no idea how far he will have to go in search of the killer. In South Africa, Nelson Mandela has made his long walk to freedom, setting in train the country''s painful journey towards the end of the apartheid. Wallander and his colleagues find themselves caught up in a complex web involving renegade members of South Africa''s secret service and a former KGB agent, all of whom are set upon halting Mandela''s rise to power.Faced with an increasingly globalised world in which international terrorism knows no national borders, Wallander must prevent a hideous crime that means to dam the tide of history.

Voici, réunies en 1 volume, les deux premières aventures de l'enquêteur suédois mondialement célèbre, Kurt Watlander. Qu'il enquête dans une Scanie qui fustige ses réfugiés et succombe à la violence

The Pyramid is a collection of 5 short stories plus an additional prologue. It tells about the time between 1969-1989, from the time when Wallander was a police at Malmö to that he meets his father at a Egyptian police station in Cairo "The Pyramid", es una recopilación de cinco relatos cortos además de un prólogo adicional. Nos relata acerca del período entre 1969 y 1989, desde los tiempos en que Wallander era policía en Malmö al momento en que conoce a su padre en una comisaría de policía en El Cairo.

«¿QUIEN HA VISTO UN GATO NEGRO CON UN POCO DE BLANCO EN LA PUNTA DE LA COLA? DESAPARECIDO DE LA CALLE RÖNNBÄR, 19 LLAMA AL 4911408Una mañana, cuando Lukas se despierte, descubrirá que Noche, su gato,

»Mankell ist ein im besten Sinne spannender Roman gelungen, eine Beschreibung Afrikas ohne jede Romantisierung und Idealisierung. Selten ist menschliches Scheitern beeindruckender beschrieben worden als von Henning Mankell.« Walter Wuttke im ›Rheinischen Merkur‹ »Der weiße Mann arbeitet schnell und hart, aber Eile und Ungeduld sind in den Augen der Schwarzen ein Zeichen fehlender Intelligenz.« - Eigentlich hatte der junge Mann nur eine kurze Reise nach Afrika machen wollen, aber dann war er neunzehn Jahre geblieben. In Lusaka übernimmt er die Hühnerfarm einer weißen Engländerin und verfolgt ehrgeizige Reformpläne: Er will neue Häuser für die Schwarzen bauen, ihnen höhere Löhne bezahlen und ihren Kindern eine Schule einrichten. Er sorgt für die Witwe eines schwarzen Handwerkers und ihre vier Töchter, deren jüngste für ihn wie eine eigene Tochter ist. Doch bald mehren sich die Zeichen, daß sich die Zustände nicht so rasch in seinem Sinne ändern lassen. Seine weißen Nachbarn werden massakriert. Und der Mann, den er für seinen einzigen Freund hält, rät ihm, für immer wegzugehen ...

One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When this is leaked to the press, it unleashes racial hatred.

Fredrik Welin ist etwas widerfahren, das er nur »die Katastrophe« nennt. Danach hat sich der ehemalige Chirurg auf eine kleine Insel in den Schären zurückgezogen und meidet jeden Kontakt mit den Menschen. Doch dann steht eines Tages seine Jugendliebe Harriet vor der Tür und erinnert ihn an ein altes Versprechen. Er folgt ihr auf eine Reise in die Vergangenheit, voller unverhoffter Begegnungen mit außergewöhnlichen Menschen. Eine Reise, die ihm den Weg zurück zu den Menschen weisen wird ...

Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his recently deceased friend Janice. Africa is a complete shock to Olofson, yet he chooses to stay and make it his home, eventually taking control of a small farm. Here, he learns of the fragile truce between the white and black populations of Zambia, and rumors of an underground army of revolutionaries wearing leopard skins alert him that violence may erupt at any moment. As a wealthy white man, he grows increasingly fearful and returns in his mind to the traumatic events that drove him from Sweden, playing back the complicated events of his past, as his present races toward a thrilling climax.

When Louise Cantor finds her 28-year-old son dead in his apartment, everything indicates it was a suicide. Louise, however, refuses to accept this. She and her ex-husband set out to find what happened, and soon discover a dark underworld where suddenly their own lives are at stake.

Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his friend Janice He is also fleeing the traumas of his motherless childhood: his fathers alcoholism, his best friends terrible accident, Janices death, his fear of an ordinary and stifled fate Africa is a terrible shock, yet he stays and makes it his home... Hans Olofson llega a Zambia poco despues de su independencia, esperando cumplir el sueño misionero de su amiga Janice Tambien esta huyendo de los traumas de su infancia huerfano de madre: el alcoholismo de su padre, el terrible accidente de su mejor amigo, la muerte de Janice, su temor de un destino gris y ordinario...

The essential read for all fans of Kurt Wallander. 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 such a place. These thrilling tales provide a fascinating insight into Wallander''s character, and demand to be read in one sitting.

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. The Man from Beijing is both a gripping and perceptive political thriller and a compelling detective story. It shows Henning Mankell at the height of his powers, handling a broad historical canvas and pressing international issues with his exceptional gifts for insight and chilling suspense.

It is 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 measurement; nothing is as magical as exact knowledge. His instinct for his profession is reflected in the comfortable domesticity he enjoys with his wife - herself meticulous in every detail. 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, Sara Fredrika. Despite her almost feral appearance, something about her strikes him to the core. 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 is now compelled to find any pretence to return to the remote islet. In "Depths" Mankell confirms his status as a writer beyond the crime genre. By delving deep into the male psyche, he has produced a novel both as tense and compelling in every way as the "Wallander series", but also powerful, moving and ultimately tragic.

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, shot dead. The dead men were criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea, to Riga in Latvia, where he is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats, and lies. Doomed always to be one step behind the shadowy figures he pursues, only Wallander's obstinate desire to see that justice is done brings the truth to light.