The White Lioness

Kurt Wallander

Henning Mankell

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Vintage
01 July 2012

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Series: Kurt Wallander

When a pillar of the local community vanishes, Inspector Kurt Wallander has a feeling the victim will never be found alive, but he has no idea how far he will have to go in search of the killer...

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Sidetracked.

In 1992, 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 Wallander and his team are called in to investigate.

As Inspector Wallander is introduced to this missing person's case he has a gut feeling that the victim will never be found alive, but he has no idea how far he will have to go in search of the killer. In South Africa, Nelson Mandela has made his long walk to freedom, setting in train the country's painful journey towards the end of the apartheid. Wallander and his colleagues find themselves caught up in a complex web involving renegade members of South Africa's secret service and a former KGB agent, all of whom are set upon halting Mandela's rise to power.

Faced with an increasingly globalised world in which international terrorism knows no national borders, Wallander must prevent a hideous crime that means to dam the tide of history.

By: Henning Mankell
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 394g
ISBN: 9780099571698
ISBN 10: 0099571692
Series: Kurt Wallander
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 01 July 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Henning Mankell is the prize-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the Inspector Wallander Mysteries, now dominating bestseller lists throughout Europe. He devotes much of his time to working with Aids charities in Africa, where he is also director of the Teatro Avenida in Maputo.

Reviews for The White Lioness: Kurt Wallander

Well paced... A thinking man's thriller * New York Times * The real test of thrillers of this kind is whether you want to spend more time in the detective's company. I certainly do -- Sean French * Independent * Mankell is one of the most ingenious crime writers around, strong on characterisation, plotting and atmosphere. Highly recommended -- Peter Gutteridge * Observer * Superbly crafted detective stories -- Christopher Gray * Oxford Times *