Henning Mankell
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Language
Polish
Description
Frederick Welin, emerytowany chirurg mieszkający na jednej z wysp szwedzkiego archipelagu, budzi się w nocy, krztusząc się dymem. Jego dom stoi w płomieniach. Mężczyzna zrywa się z łóżka, ale jest już za późno, by ratować dobytek. Ledwo udaje mu się owinąć kocem i wybiec z pożogi w-- jak się okazuje-- dwóch lewych kaloszach. Wkrótce w płomieniach staje kolejny dom, a ludzie zaczynają szeptać o przemykającej po wyspie tajemniczej,...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
"A novel in which Kurt Wallander becomes involved in the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer--who is Wallander's daughter Linda's future father-in-law--which leads him into a story of Cold War espionage. Wallander also confronts his own age and mortality, while welcoming his first granddaughter"--
44) La pirámide
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Series
Language
Español
Description
A volume of short works featuring the popular investigator features Wallander as a young patrolman on his first case, a new father facing unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, a middle-aged man solving a poisoning death, a separated husband investigating a photographer's murder, and a veteran detective connecting a dual murder to a plane crash.
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Swedish
Description
The overdose: A white car is parked by a side road in the beautiful landscape of Scania in southern Sweden. A child sits alone without an adult in sight. The child's father has been reported as missing, while the mother is in a psychiatric institution, unresponsive and apathetic. Kurt Wallander's failing health sees Linda take the lead in the case. It will touch her deeply as she discovers that the child has been unscrupulously tricked, exploited...
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Series
Colección Andanzas volume 643
Language
Español
Description
"Una historia subyugante sobre el amor y las relaciones de familia."
Author
Series
Colección Andanzas volume 717
Language
Español
Description
Desde la fría región sueca de Norrland, el joven Hans Olofson viaja a Zambia para visitar la tumba de un misionero legendario. La belleza de Zambia lo hechiza hasta el punto de permanecer en el país durante 18 años. Poco a poco la realidad africana le impone una visiõn de la vida distinta, mientras el racismo de los blancos y el odio de los negros va consumiéndole.
Arriving in newly independent Zambia in the hopes of fulfilling a friend's...
53) Un ángel impuro
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Series
Colección Andanzas volume 774
Language
Español
Description
"En enero de 2002, bajo el entarimado medio podrido de una habitación del antaño lujoso Africa Hotel, en la ciudad mozambiqueña de Beira, un hombre encuentra un viejo cuaderno; en la tapa lee un nombre y una fecha: "Hanna Lundmark, 1905", pero el cuaderno está escrito en una lengua que desconoce. En 1904, casi un siglo antes de ese extraño hallazgo, una mujer del interior de Suecia desea para su primogénita, Hanna, una vida mejor, y decide enviarla...
54) El Chino
Author
Series
Colección Andanzas volume 674
Language
Español
Description
Una helada manana de enero de 2006, la policia hace un descubrimiento aterrador: en el pueblecito sueco de Hesjovallen aparecen brutalmente asesinadas diecinueve personas. Ante semejante atrocidad, la policia sospecha que puede tratarse de la obra de un perturbado. Sin embargo, la jueza Birgitta Roslin, en Helsingborg, al leer el suceso se entera de que entre las victimas se encontraban los padres adoptivos de su madre, August y Britta Andren; cuando...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
With a New Introduction by Henning Mankell. The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö ("the best writers of police procedurals in the world"), finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler.
On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues Beck begins an investigation
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Swedish
Description
Before anyone else played the part, Rolf Lassgard established the role of Kurt Wallander in the original Swedish film adaptations of Henning Mankell's bestselling crime novels. Kurt Wallander is a cop who gets the job done; decades of coming up against criminal minds has honed his instincts for investigations and he knows where to draw the line between the job and personal vendettas. Usually. Includes: The Man Who Smiled; Firewall, Parts 1 & 2; and...
Series
Language
Swedish
Description
A lifetime of police work has left Detective Kurt Wallander with the look of a man who's seen too much. In a spare and compelling performance, Krister Henriksson does justice to the complicated detective beloved by fans of the bestselling crime novels by Henning Mankell.
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Swedish
Description
Wallander is Ystad's veteran detective who's finally learned to find respite from the job in the moments of grace that come from living on the beach with his dog, Jussi, or spending time with his granddaughter. He's still on the outs at work, however, offbeat methods make him an irritant for management and his colleague, Martinsson, is angling for his position. But no one in the department has the uncanny sense of the criminal mind that he does.
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Swedish
Description
The Photographer: An American tourist is found dead and her husband demands the body and all her possessions be returned. Just before her death she visited a renowned photographer, fuelling the suspicion of adultery. Detective Wallander takes an interest in the cuckolded husband and suspects there is more to the photographer than meets the eye.
The Tricksters: A farmer is apparently kicked to death by a horse, until Detective Wallander investigates...