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The Man from Beijing

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Feb 16, 2010 - Fiction - 384 pages

The best-selling, award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander series delivers an incredible stand-alone masterpiece: a bone-chilling mystery that spans two centuries and four continents.
 
In the far north of Sweden a small, quiet village has been almost entirely wiped out by a mass murderer. The only clue left at the scene is a red ribbon. Among the victims are the grandparents of Judge Birgitta Roslin, who sets out to find the killer. Despite being brushed off by the police, Birgitta is determined to prove that the murders were not a random act of violence but are part of something far more dark and complex. Her investigation leads to the highest echelons of power and into the recesses of history where the seeds of evil deeds were planted.  




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Another problem is the stilted prose and dialogue. - Goodreads
Mankell is always a great writer. - Goodreads
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Her research touches America, China and Africa. - Goodreads

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User Review  - Beesley - Goodreads

This novel did not live up to its very ambitious premise. Mankell seems to have set out to spin a mystery that swept across continents and generations, and that created connections between the most ... Read full review

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User Review  - Andrea - Goodreads

I read this book in a day, not so much because the book was that good, but more because I was in the mood to spend the day reading, and wanted a plot heavy book, something a bit lighter than my ... Read full review

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About the author (2010)

Henning Mankell is the prizewinning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, which were adapted into a PBS television series starring Kenneth Branagh. His novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold thirty million copies worldwide. He is the first winner of the Ripper Award (the new European Crime Fiction Star Award) and has also received the Glass Key and Golden Dagger awards. He divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique.


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