Literature/Poetry

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Mankell, Henning: EYE OF THE LEOPARD, THE.

Author: Mankell, Henning
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 2008
No. of pages: 315
Illustrations:
Binding: Hardbound with jacket
Size: 9 1/2”x 6 1/2”
Weight:
ISBN: 9781595580771
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6432

Price: $12.50

This haunting novel from the author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries juxtaposes a man's youth in Sweden with his life in Zambia, drawing on Henning Mankell's own deep understanding of the two worlds he has inhabited. Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long after independence, hoping to fulfill the missionary dream of his late friend Janice and also fleeing the traumas of his motherless childhood, his father's alcoholism, and his best friend's terrible accident. Though Africa is a terrible shock, he stays and makes it his home for 18 years—yet he never fully comes to understand his place as a wealthy white man among native blacks, and the fragile truce between them. Rumors of an underground army of revolutionaries wearing leopard skins warn him that the truce is in danger of rupturing.

Mankell, Henning: FACELESS KILLERS.

Author: Mankell, Henning
Country: New York
Language:
Year Published: 1997
No. of pages: 280
Illustrations:
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8”x 5”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9781400031573
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6833

Price: $14.95

It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn’t present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have–and in the process, the match that could inflame Sweden’s already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments. Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has peaked his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve.

Mankell, Henning: KENNEDY’S BRAIN.

Author: Mankell, Henning
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published:
No. of pages: 328
Illustrations:
Binding: hardbound with jacket
Size: 9 1/2”x 6”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9781595581846
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6433

Price: $12.50

The “First World” and the so-called Third World. When Louise Cantor finds her twenty-eight year old son dead in his apartment, everything indicates it was a suicide. Louise, however, refuses to accept this, and with nothing more than few suspicions and a mother's intuition, she and her ex-husband set out to find what happened. What they discover is a dark underworld of people exploiting the victims of the AIDS epidemic: corrupt business men dealing infected blood, suspicious researchers carrying out dangerous tests, and lecherous drug dealers peddling black market medicine. Their investigation takes them across three continents, and leads them into some mighty financial institutions and highest corridors of power, where suddenly their own lives are at stake. 

Mankell, Henning: ONE STEP BEHIND.

Author: Mankell, Henning
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 440
Illustrations:
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8”x 5”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9781400031511
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6887

Price: $15.00

Sixth in the Kurt Wallander series. On Midsummer’s Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander’s most trusted colleagues–someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime–also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related. But with his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know, he can’t begin to imagine how. Reeling from his own father’s death and facing his own deteriorating health, Wallander tracks the lethal progress of the killer. Locked in a desperate effort to catch him before he strikes again, Wallander always seems to be just one step behind.

Mankell, Henning: PYRAMID, THE. and Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries

Author: Mankell, Henning
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 1999
No. of pages: 392
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 9 1/2”x 6 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9781565849945
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6517

Price: $49.50

This international bestseller is the missing piece of the critically acclaimed Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander's beginnings. The Pyramid is the prequel to the bestselling Kurt Wallander series, and reintroduces readers to a character they thought they knew everything about. Here, we see Wallander as a twenty-one-year-old patrolman, as a young father facing an unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, as a budding detective on the brink of middle age solving a case of poisoning, as an investigator solving the murder of a local photographer, and finally as a veteran detective discovering unexpected connections between a downed mystery plane and the assassination of a pair of spinster sisters. Watching this fascinating character come into his own and develop his signature methodical and instinctive work style, makes for riveting reading. The Pyramid is vintage Mankell, and a must-have for his many fans.