Book description
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.
Henning Mankell has become a worldwide phenomenon with his crime
writing, gripping thrillers and atmospheric novels set in Africa. His
prizewinning and critically acclaimed Inspector Wallander Mysteries
are currently dominating bestseller lists all over the globe. His
books have been translated into forty-five languages and made into
numerous international film and television adaptations: most recently
the BAFTA-award-winning BBC television series Wallander,
starring Kenneth Branagh. Mankell devotes much of his free time to
working with Aids charities in Africa, where he is also director of
the Teatro Avenida in Maputo. In 2008, the University of St Andrews
conferred Henning Mankell with an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters
in recognition of his major contribution to literature and to the
practical exercise of conscience.
www. henningmankell. co. uk
