Henning Mankell

Archaeologist Louise Cantor returns home to Sweden, and makes a devastating discovery: her only child, twenty-eight-year-old Henrik, dead in his bed. The police rule his death a suicide, but she knows he was murdered....

After nearly thirty years in the same job, Inspector Kurt Wallander is tired, restless, and itching to make a change....

October, 1914. Swedish naval officer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is charged with a secret mission to take depth readings around the Stockholm archipelago. In the course of his work, he lands on the rocky isle of Halsskär....

In The Shadow Girls, author/poet Jesper Humlin struggles under the pall of a frustrating life....

One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out....

Two cases become one and lead to a conspiracy that stretches far beyond the borders of Sweden....

In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction but about what it means to be human....

Stefan Lindman, a young police officer, decides to investigate the murder of his former colleague, but is soon enmeshed in a mystifying case....

Henning Mankell's last novel about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire....

January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjvallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.....

The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell’s brilliant, brooding detective, Kurt Wallander. On a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm....

Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage nighttime attack....

On Midsummer's Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in 18th-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow....

Linda Wallander returns to Skane to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her father - the maverick approach, the flaring temper....

In this adventure from the pen of Sweden's master of crime and mystery, a disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander is thrown back into the fray when he becomes both hunter and hunted....

The Pyramid is the long-awaited addition to Henning Mankell's critically celebrated and internationally best-selling Kurt Wallander mystery series....

While tracking a demented serial killer, Detective Kurt Wallander is beset with obstacles, including an unshakably haunting preoccupation with a girl who set herself on fire....

The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case, except that there is no obvious suspect....

On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft....

In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered, and the death of the unknown woman is covered up by the local police....