Henning Mankell
HENNING MANKELL was born in Stockholm in 1948. He is the prize-winning author of the eight novels in the Inspector Wallander Series which has been translated into many languages and consistently tops the best-seller lists throughout Europe. His novel Sidetracked won the CWA Gold dagger in 2001. Mankell has worked as an actor, theatre director and manager in Sweden and in Mozambique, where he is head of Teatro Avenida in Maputo.
Featured Books, with extracts, by Henning Mankell
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Journey to the End of the World
Henning Mankell
A deeply moving story of a 15 year olds’ first encounter with his mother since she had abandoned him as a baby. Joel has left school and longs to begin a new life as a sailor. But first he and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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When the Snow Fell
Henning Mankell
A touching story of growing up and discovering what really matters. Joel makes three New Year’s resolutions: To see a naked lady, to toughen himself up so that he can live to be, to see the sea. How he sets...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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The Man Who Smiled
Henning Mankell
A gripping story of high finance and power and the terrifying abuse of it. The tension builds gradually accelerating to the sort of book you just can’t put down. It is terrific. It is the final missing piece of the...
Format: Paperback (a Format) - Released: 02/03/2006
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Before The Frost
Henning Mankell
After eight books in the Kurt Wallander police mystery series, this renowned Swedish crime writer is developing a new character, Kurt’s daughter Linda. This seems to be the change-over title with a part for them both, although it turns out...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2005
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Books by Henning Mankell
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The Man from Beijing
Henning Mankell
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...
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/01/2010
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Italian Shoes
Henning Mankell
Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly 12 years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/04/2009
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The Pyramid
Henning Mankell
When Kurt Wallander 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. This title chronicles the events...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/10/2008
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Kennedy's Brain
Henning Mankell
When archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe something more sinister took place. The only lead is a...
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2007
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Depths
Henning Mankell
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. Svartman alights on a...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/10/2006
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Chronicler of the Winds
Henning Mankell
One night Jose Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. He races to the theatre's uppermost gallery, and there lies the wounded body of Nelio, a street urchin. Gasping, the wounded boy asks...
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/04/2006
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The Return of the Dancing Master
Henning Mankell
This tale marks the end of the Kurt Wallander mysteries and yet leads back to Wallander's Ystad, where a new series of thrillers can begin. Stefan Lindman investigates the murder of a former police colleague and to his horror uncovers...
Format: Hardback - Released: 30/10/2003
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Depths
Henning Mankell
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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Fifth Woman
Henning Mankell
Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles in, and Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/12/2009
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The Man Who Smiled
Henning Mankell
After killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression. He has just decided to leave the police when an old friend approaches him for help investigating his father's suspicious death....
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/12/2009
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Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell
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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/12/2009
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The Fury in the Fire
Henning Mankell
The Fury in the Fire is a powerful, compelling story of love, betrayal and the courage of a young woman who finds the strength to overcome poverty and disaster.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2009
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The Return of the Dancing Master
Henning Mankell
Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has two obsessions: one is the tango and the other is a conviction that he is being hunted, constantly...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/05/2009
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The Pyramid
Henning Mankell
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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Before the Frost
Henning Mankell
In woodland outside Ystad, the police make a horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A string of macabre incidents, including attacks on domestic animals, have been taking place, and Inspector Wallander fears...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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The Eye of the Leopard
Henning Mankell
Hans Olofson is the son of a Swedish lumberjack. His early life is isolated and difficult, overshadowed by the disappearance of his mother. When he loses his best friend and his girlfriend in tragic circumstances, his only desire is to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
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The Man Who Smiled
Henning Mankell
After killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression. He has just decided to leave the police when an old friend approaches him for help investigating his father's suspicious death....
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/02/2009
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The Fifth Woman
Henning Mankell
Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage night-time attack. Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher, he discovers...
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/01/2009
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The White Lioness
Henning Mankell
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 Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. As Inspector Wallander is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2009
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The Dogs of Riga
Henning Mankell
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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2009
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Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell
One frozen January morning at 5 am, 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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/12/2008
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Sidetracked
Henning Mankell
Midsummer approaches, and Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. But his summer is ruined when a girl commits suicide before his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/11/2008
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Firewall
Henning Mankell
Stopping to use a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage girls. Quickly apprehended they appeal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/11/2008
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One Step Behind
Henning Mankell
Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is this...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/11/2008
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Sidetracked
Henning Mankell
Midsummer approaches, and Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. But his summer is ruined when a girl commits suicide before his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/10/2008
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Firewall
Henning Mankell
Stopping to get money from a cash machine, a man falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their lack of remorse. One girl escapes police...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/10/2008
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The Cat Who Liked Rain
Henning Mankell
Lucas gets a most precious present for his birthday, a black kitten which he calls Night. Lucas becomes very attached to Night but one day Lucas comes home from school and discovers that his beloved cat has disappeared. He is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2008
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The Journey to the End of the World
Henning Mankell
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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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Depths
Henning Mankell
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. His instinct for his profession is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2007
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When the Snow Fell
Henning Mankell
Joel is growing up. He is getting interested in girls. 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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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Chronicler of the Winds
Henning Mankell,
Steven T. Murray
At the age of five, Nelio watched helplessly as his village was burned to the ground and his people were massacred by bandits. He escaped by chance and made his way to the coast. Upon arrival in the city, Nelio...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2007
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Shadows in the Twilight
Henning Mankell
Joel will soon be twelve, and he thinks nothing's going on in the small community where he lives. But he's wrong there. One day, a Miracle happens to him. He's very nearly run over by a bus, but is miraculously...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2007
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A Bridge to the Stars
Henning Mankell
12 year old Joel lives with his father in the cold northern part of Sweden. At night he often sneaks out of his father's house to look for a lonely dog he has seen from his window. On the bridge...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2005
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I Die, but the Memory Lives on
Henning Mankell
In this personal account of the Aids epidemic in Africa, the author tells not only of his experiences whilst working for Aids charities on the continent, but of his fears and anxieties for the sufferers.
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2004
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Playing with Fire
Henning Mankell
Sofia lost her legs and her sister in a landmine accident, but now she's growing up and is ready to fall in love. Her older sister is beautiful and loves dancing, but how will Sofia get anyone to notice her?...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2002
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Secrets in the Fire
Henning Mankell
This novel brings to life a girl's experience of civil war, life in a refugee village, the loss of both legs in a landmine accident and her long struggle to survive. It is as much a study of a young...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2000
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