The man from Beijing / Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010.Edition: 1st North American edDescription: 365 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0307271862 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780307271860 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Kinesen. English
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries now gives us an electrifying stand-alone thriller that takes off into a sweeping international drama.
January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: her grandparents, the Andrens, are among the victims. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the murders. But when Birgitta discovers the diary of another Andren--a gang master on the American transcontinental railway in the nineteenth century--that describes the cruel treatment of Chinese slave-workers, she is determined to uncover what she suspects is a more complicated truth.
The investigation leads to modern-day Beijing and its highest echelons of power, to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But the narrative also takes us back 150 years, into a history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer to solving the Hesjovallen murders.
This is Henning Mankell at the height of his powers.
Originally published under title Kinesen : Stockholm : Leopard, 2008.
Hudiksvall, January 2006, police find eighteen people massacred in a small village. They think it's the work of a mad man but Birgitta and August believe they were killed by the same person who killed their mother.