Henning Mankell. Vintage, $16.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-43215-9
This final volume from Mankell—the Swedish dramatist, theater director, and creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander novels (and many other books)—includes 67 short essays written in the last two years of his life; he was diagnosed with lung cancer
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Henning Mankell, Author , trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. New Press $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-56584-787-3
Set against the chaotic backdrop of eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mankell's intense, accomplished mystery, the last in his Kurt Wallander series (Firewall, etc.), explores one man's struggle to find truth and justice in a
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Henning Mankell, trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $14.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-8041-7064-2
Set in 2002, this compelling short novel chronicles an episode in the life of Kurt Wallander shortly before the Swedish detective ended his career in 2011's The Troubled Man. Wallander, who shares his Ystad flat with daughter Linda, decides to look...
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Henning Mankell, Author, Laurie Thompson, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. New Press $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-1-56584-860-3
Mankell, known in this country for his Kurt Wallander police procedurals (Faceless Killers
; The Dogs of Riga
), sets this intricate, stand-alone tale of murder and intrigue in the vast pine forests of north-central Sweden. Stefan Lindman, a 37-year-
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Henning Mankell, Author, Laurie Thompson, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. New Press $24.95 (325p) ISBN 978-1-56584-993-8
First published in Sweden in 1994, Mankell's terrific fourth Kurt Wallender mystery opens with the kind of startling image typical of this internationally bestselling series (Firewall
, etc.): a lawyer, driving home through the fog, stops after...
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Henning Mankell, Author, Laurie Thompson, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. New Press $26.95 (403p) ISBN 978-1-59558-089-4
This bizarre and compelling tale from Swedish author Mankell, best known for his crime novels featuring detective Kurt Wallander (The Man Who Smiled
, etc.), focuses on a tortured naval officer, Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, who has the important duty of
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Henning Mankell, Author, Laurie Thompson, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. New Press $26.95 (328p) ISBN 978-1-59558-184-6
In Mankell’s engaging but overly polemical stand-alone crime novel, Louise Cantor, an archeologist working in Greece, returns home to Sweden to discover her grown son, Henrik, lying dead in his own bed. Cantor, who refuses to accept the police
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Henning Mankell, Author, Laurie Thompson, Translator . Delacorte $15.99 (164p) ISBN 978-0-385-73495-0
The Swedish crime novelist, author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, gives a younger audience a sophisticated glimpse into a boy's psyche in this simple but captivating novel. Set in a secluded mountain town in northern Sweden in 1956, the story
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Henning Mankell, trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Knopf, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-307-96122-8
Africa features prominently in the work of Mankell (The Shadow Girls), both in his acclaimed Wallander mysteries and his many stand-alone books, including this fine historical set in Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique) in the early 20th century.
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Henning Mankell, Author, Laurie Thompson, Translator New Press $26.95 (247p) ISBN 978-1-59558-436-6
A tragic operating room error has cost Swedish surgeon Fredrik Welin his career in this moving novel from Mankell, who's best known for his Kurt Wallander mystery series (Firewall
, etc.). Welin, 66, lives on a remote island with only his dog...
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Henning Mankell, trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson, Knopf, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-307-59349-8
In Mankell's masterful 11th novel featuring Kurt Wallander (and likely the last in this internationally bestselling series, according to Sonny Mehta's note to the reader), the 60-year-old Swedish detective unofficially pursues a baffling case that's
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Henning Mankell, Author, Laurie Thompson, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Knopf $25.95 (365p) ISBN 978-0-307-27186-0
A massacre in the remote Swedish village of Hesjövallen propels this complex, if diffuse, stand-alone thriller from Mankell (The Pyramid
). Judge Birgitta Roslin, whose mother grew up in the village, comes across diaries from the house of one...
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Henning Mankell, Author, Steven T. Murray, Translator New Press $25 (349p) ISBN 978-1-56584-507-7
Told from the perspectives of both cop and criminal, Mankell's third Kurt Wallander mystery revolves around the veteran Swedish inspector's search for a savage serial killer who scalps his victims after delivering a fatal hatchet blow. The novel...
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Henning Mankell, Author, Steven T. Murray, Translator New Press $24.95 (423p) ISBN 978-1-56584-547-3
Dr. Gerald Ashenden, ""Ireland's justly famous thoracic surgeon,"" is lucky to escape with only a broken shoulder after being trampled by his gray stallion, Thor, ridden by his pregnant granddaughter, Rowena Keegan, in this nominal cozy marred by...
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Henning Mankell, Author, Steven T. Murray, Translator New Press $23 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56584-341-7
In his first appearance in English, Swedish bestselling author Mankell combines thriller-quality entertainment with a depiction of anti-foreigner prejudice in Sweden, painted here as a very chilly place indeed. Since his wife walked out on him, Kurt
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Henning Mankell, trans. from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray, New Press, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59558-193-8
Set in the 1870s, this earnest and heartbreaking story opens with the unsolved murder of a mentally retarded Swedish girl, but this isn't a mystery in the mode of Mankell's international bestselling Kurt Wallander novels (Firewall, etc.). Hans...
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Henning Mankell, Author, Steven T. Murray, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. New Press $26.95 (315p) ISBN 978-1-59558-077-1
Best known for his Kurt Wallander mysteries (Firewall
, etc.), Mankell alternates between the coming-of-age story of Hans Olofson, a provincial Swede who grows up in a motherless home with an alcoholic father, and Olofson’s later experiences...
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Henning Mankell, trans. by Laurie Thompson, read by Rosalyn Landor. Random House Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11.5 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-8041-2693-9
Through an odd series of circumstances, Hanna Lundmark escapes from poverty and, eventually, finds herself the owner of a prestigious brothel in Mozambique in the first decade of the 20th century. But racial strife and colonialism make this world...
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Henning Mankell. New Press, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59558-192-1
The darkly absurdist humor in bestselling Swedish novelist Mankell’s novel comes from an original blend of cheerful satire, metafiction, and earnest social messaging. Jesper Humlin is a poet who is moderately successful professionally and mostly...
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Henning Mankell, Author, Ebba Segerberg, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg. New Press $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-56584-767-5
In the sixth Kurt Wallander book to appear in English (One Step Behind, etc.), Mankell proves once again that spending time with a glum police inspector in chilly Sweden can be quite thrilling. In the small town of Ystad, a pair of seemingly random...
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Henning Mankell, Author, Ebba Segerberg, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg. New Press $24.95 (383p) ISBN 978-1-56584-835-1
In Mankell's stellar 10th Wallander mystery, the generational torch passes from father Kurt to his equally stubborn daughter, Linda, who recently finished her police training and is anxiously awaiting her first day on the job. But a seemingly...
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Henning Mankell, Author, Ebba Segerberg, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg. New Press $24.95 (408p) ISBN 978-1-56584-652-4
In his fifth U.S. appearance in this taut, intricately plotted series (The Fifth Woman, etc.), Swedish detective Kurt Wallander pursues a long, complex case sure to please those who like weighty police procedurals. Six weeks after three college...
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Henning Mankell, Author, Ebba Segerberg, Translator, Laurie Thompson, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg with Laurie Thompson. New Press $26.95 (392p) ISBN 978-1-56584-994-5
The five stories in this outstanding collection from Mankell (Faceless Killers
) provide glimpses into Kurt Wallander's early life as a policeman as well as paint evocative portraits of contemporary Swedish society. An unremarkable businessman...
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Henning Mankell, Author, Ebba Segerberg, Translator, Dick Hill, Read by , read by Dick Hill. Blackstone $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-2582-6
When two dead bodies show up in the Swedish town of Ystad, the aging and disheartened police detective Kurt Wallander begins to investigate the murders as the press attacks his reputation. Mankell delivers a solid mystery with excellent buildup and...
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Henning Mankell, Author, Laurie Thompson, Translator, Henning Mankell, Epilogue by New Press $41.95 (500p) ISBN 978-1-56584-424-7
Like his countrymen Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, Mankell writes mysteries that connect crimes in Sweden to the rest of the world. Faceless Killers (1997), the first of his books about provincial police inspector Kurt Wallender to appear here,...
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Henning Mankell, Author, Tiina Nunnally, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Tiina Nunnally. New Press $24.95 (233p) ISBN 978-1-59558-058-0
Mankell's evocative, quietly powerful novel, first published in 1995, tells the unbearably sad story of 10-year-old Nelio, a mortally wounded street kid in an unnamed African port city. After revolutionary soldiers kill his family and most of...
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Henning Mankell, trans. from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. Vintage, $16.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-43508-2
On a rocky, remote private island in a Swedish archipelago, 70-year-old Fredrik Welin wakes to a searing light. He stumbles outside, recovering only a raincoat and two left boots on the way, and watches helplessly as his house burns to its...
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