From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander crime novels, a powerful stand-alone novel set in early-twentieth-century Sweden and Mozambique, whose vividly drawn female protagonist is awoken from her naïveté by her exposure to racism and by her own unexpected inner strengths. Cold and poverty define Hanna Renström’s childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1904, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life.  But none of her hopes—or fears—prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages both leave her widowed, she finds herself the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white colonists rule, where she is isolated within white society by her profession and her gender, and, among the bordello’s black prostitutes, by her color. As Hanna’s story unfurls over the next several years in this “treacherous paradise,” she wrestles with a devastating loneliness and with the racism she’s meant to unthinkingly adopt. And as her life becomes increasingly intertwined with the prostitutes’, she moves inexorably toward the moment when she will make a decision that defies all the expectations society has of her and, more important, those she has of herself. Gripping in its drama, evocative and searing in its portrait of colonial Africa, A Treacherous Paradise is, at its heart, a deeply moving story of a woman who manages to wrench wisdom, empathy, and grace from the most unforgiving circumstances.

Product Description: Un domingo de octubre de 2002, un Kurt Wallander agotado después de una intensa semana de trabajo va a visitar la que podría ser la casa de sus sueños, en las afueras de Löderup. Mientras deambula a solas por el jardín de la finca, rumiando si comprarla o no, tropieza con algo semioculto entre la hierba...read more

Product Description: En enero de 2002, bajo el entarimado medio podrido de una habitacion del que fuera el lujoso Africa Hotel, en la ciudad mozambiquena de Beira, un hombre encuentra un viejo cuaderno. En la tapa aun puede leer un nombre y una fecha: «Hanna Lundmark, 1905», pero el cuaderno esta escrito en una lengua que desconoce...read more

Product Description: Joel is growing up. He is getting interested in girls. Just look at his New Year’s resolutions: 1 – to see a naked lady; 2 – to toughen himself up so that he can live to be a hundred; and 3 – to see the sea. They all look pretty impossible for a motherless boy in Northern Sweden...read more

Product Description: Jesper Humlin meets three immigrant girls who want to learn how to write. The girls tell him about their lives, and a planned detective novel becomes something different than a mystery. Jesper and the girls live in the same country, but in two different worlds...read more

La vida del inspector Kurt Wallander ha cambiado ligeramente: no solo ha hecho realidad su sueno de tener una casa en el campo, sino que, ademas, su hija Linda lo ha convertido en abuelo. Sin embargo, su tranquilidad se ve perturbada poco despues, un dia de invierno de 2008, cuando el suegro de Linda, un oficial de alto rango de la Marina sueca llamado HÃ¥kan von Enke, desaparece en un bosque cerca de Estocolmo. Aunque la investigacion la dirige la policia de Estocolmo, Wallander no puede evitar implicarse, sobre todo cuando una segunda persona desaparece en misteriosas circunstancias. Algunas pistas apuntan a grupos de extrema derecha en el seno de la Marina sueca y a la epoca de la Guerra Fria, en particular a la decada de los ochenta, cuando varios submarinos sovieticos fueron acusados de violar territorio sueco. Wallander comprende que esta a punto de desvelar un gran secreto cuyo alcance abarcaria toda la historia de Suecia tras la segunda guerra mundial. Pero una nube aun mas negra asoma por el horizonte. / The life of Inspector Kurt Wallander has changed slightly: not only he has realized his dream of owning a house in the countryside, but also, his daughter Linda made him a grandfather. However, their tranquility is disturbed shortly after a cold winter day in 2008, when the father-in-law of Linda, a senior official of the Swedish Navy called HÃ¥kan von Enke, disappears into a forest near Stockholm. Although research is led by Stockholm police, Wallander cannot help but getting involved, especially when a second person disappears under mysterious circumstances.

In 1878, aspiring entomologist Hans Bengler travels to the Kalahari Desert in hopes of making a name for himself by discovering a previously unknown insect or two. There he encounters a boy named Molo, an orphan whose family has been killed by European colonists. Bengler "civilizes" the boy by rechristening him Daniel, teaching him to pray to the Christian god, and finally bringing him home to Sweden. The boy is bewildered and awed by the new land, cut off from his culture and the spirits of his family, and Bengler finds that raising a child across a great cultural divide is more difficult than he imagined. A psychological drama of one boy's struggle to find his place in a new land far from home, "Daniel" is a compelling novel for our modern globalized world.

Inspector Kurt Wallander searches for a ruthless killer as he uncovers the link between the murders of four nuns and another unidentified woman in an Algerian convent and the death of a birdwatcher found skewered in a pit of carefully sharpened bamboo poles. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Product Description: Desde la fria region sueca de Norrland, el joven Hans Olofson viaja a Zambia para visitar la tumba de un misionero legendario. Deja atras una infancia y una adolescencia marcadas por la ausencia de la madre y, despues, por la muerte de dos personas muy allegadas...read more

Product Description: The first three novels in Henning Manning's Kurt Wallander series are now available in a trade paperback set. Mystery fans across America are discovering the international bestseller Henning Mankell and his character Kurt Wallander, the veteran Swedish police detective...read more

The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell’s brilliant, brooding detective, Kurt Wallander.On a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation into his disappearance falls under the jurisdiction of the Stockholm police. It has nothing to do with Wallander—officially. But von Enke is his daughter’s future father-in-law. And so, with his inimitable disregard for normal procedure, Wallander is soon interfering in matters that are not his responsibility, making promises he won’t keep, telling lies when it suits him—and getting results. But the results hint at elaborate Cold War espionage activities that seem inextricably confounding, even to Wallander, who, in any case, is troubled in more personal ways as well. Negligent of his health, he’s become convinced that, having turned sixty, he is on the threshold of senility. Desperate to live up to the hope that a new granddaughter represents, he is continually haunted by his past. And looking toward the future with profound uncertainty, he will have no choice but to come face-to-face with his most intractable adversary: himself.From the Hardcover edition.

As his personal life falls apart, Swedish Police Inspector Kurt Wallander is confronted with a hideous crime which has devastating repercussions. An elderly couple are brutally murdered in their remote farmhouse and the suspicion falls on the immigrant community.

Product Description: Ystad, Suecia, otono de 1997. Un hombre muere en extranas circunstancias a las puertas de un cajero automatico. Poco despues, dos muchachas asesinan salvajemente a un taxista. Detenidas y trasladadas a la comisaria, las dos adolescentes sorprenden a todo el mundo con su agresividad y su indiferencia ante el crimen que han cometido...read more