About this title: Inspector Kurt Wallander's look into the execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife leads to an investigation of international scope and harrowing consequences, involving a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela.
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Description: Good. 2003-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Description: Very Good. 1400031559 Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light curve to the spine / light reading creases to the covers. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2003-05-13
ISBN-13:9781400031559ISBN:1400031559
Description: Good. SOFTCOVER. Good Condition. Binding secure. Opens widely at page 439. Light writing pencilled into margins. Some wear to edges and corners. Light crease beginning at front hinge. Solid reading copy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 2003-05-01
ISBN-13:9781400031559ISBN:1400031559
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781400031559. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781400031559ISBN:1400031559
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Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780099464693ISBN:0099464691
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 576 pages. (448 pages) in 1992, in peaceful southern sweden, a young housewife, pillar of the methodist church, disappears and is later found murdered, execution style. inspector kurt wallander and his team are called in to investigate. it is a case with its roots far away, in apartheid south africa. maps edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780099535324ISBN:0099535327
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 576 pages. 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 kurt wallander and his team are called in to investigate. as inspector wallander is introduced to this case, he has a feeling that the victim will never be found alive. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Date Published: 03/04/2003
ISBN-13:9781860469602ISBN:1860469604
Description: Fair. 1860469604 Ex library copy with stamps. Frontispiece removed. Plastic cover over dust jacket. Some pages have fold/crease lines. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scorpion Press, Gladestry
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781873567586ISBN:1873567588
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1873567588. One of 90 copies, numbered and signed by Mankell, with an appreciation by Minette Walters. Quarter leather binding and marbled boards. In the second Kurt Wallander mystery by the award-winning author of Faceless Killers, Inspector Wallander investigates the execution of a Swedish housewife, which uncovers a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela and leads him into a tangle with the South African secret service.; Signed by Author. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Date Published: 2003-04-03
ISBN-13:9781860469602ISBN:1860469604
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. SIGNED first English language edition of Mankell's 3rd Wallander crime novel was first published in Sweden in 1993. SIGNED by the author on the title page. If you're in Masterpiece Theatre territory, check out Kenneth Branagh as Kurt Wallander on PBS-the first 3 segments in the US are Sidetracked, Firewall and One Step Behind. Amazing. All of our first editions are first printings. Dustwrappers are protected with clear archival wraps. We ship via UPS whenever possible ... read more
"In this Wallander mystery, South Africa in the early 1990s -- right after Nelson Mandela's release from prison -- serves as a backdrop to a bizarre murder in Sweden.
The small town detective finds himself entwined with South African mercenaries, Boer supremacists, disenfranchised Soviet psycopaths and a proper Methodist real estate couple in this mystery.
The story seems more than a bit of a stretch, but who knows -- maybe Sweden is used as a training ground for Third World assasins...."
"The third in the Kurt Wallander series, and the third for me. Each one of these gets better. 'The Dogs of Riga' not only combined the elements of gripping police procedural and visceral depiction of Wallander's sometimes sordid yet somehow noble life present in 'Faceless Killers,' but also gave insight on the turmoil in the Baltic States as the Soviet Union collapsed. 'The White Lioness' opens a window on South Africa as the power of the Boers wanes, and Mandela comes into power. Indeed, it even features a cameo appearance by Mandela, and F.W. de Klerk plays a critical role. Mankell effortlessly weaves all this in with a murder investigation by Wallender in Sweden, as well as that detective's struggles with alcohol and family, and it works. Just fantastic. Highly recommended."
"A long break with many New Yorker's read...but this book was brutal to get through. I bought it for Dad one summer day when he asked me to get him a book thinking a Swedish (I think they call it Ice Noir or some nonsense?) and then decided to read it. Oy. Not good...not good at all. The mystery is not that mysterious, the drunken lead PI is not charming, or honestly that drunken, and there is barely enugh to keep you going. I think the only reason I actually finished it was to just say I did. Apparently this guy is prolific...and I won't be reading any more of it."
"Henning, dude, if you want to write a book about how it sucks to live in racist South Africa, I'm all for it. But I picked up this book because it was a KURT WALLANDER mystery. Wallander--the SWEDISH policeman, for christsakes...is he really going to foil a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela? I want to read about SWEDISH police doing SWEDISH things like solving murders in SKANE, drinking coffee and eating sandwiches. If I wanted to read the Ladies Detective series, I would have joined a book club..."
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