<div>International bestseller: Kurt Wallander and his daughter join forces to hunt for a ritual killer in this &ldquo;gripping, beautifully orchestrated&rdquo; mystery (The New York Times Book Review). Linda Wallander is bored. Having just graduated from the police academy, she&rsquo;s waiting to start work with the Ystad police and move into her own apartment. In the meantime, she&rsquo;s staying with her father and, like fathers and daughters everywhere, they are driving each other crazy. Nor will they be able to escape each other when she moves out. Her father is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a veteran of the Ystad police force, and the two of them are about to find themselves working a case that couldn&rsquo;t be closer to home. Linda&rsquo;s childhood friend Anna has disappeared. As the investigation proceeds, she makes a few rookie mistakes that are both understandable and life-threatening. But as the case her father is working on dovetails with her own, something far more dangerous, and chillingly calculated, begins to emerge. A &ldquo;powerful&rdquo; and &ldquo;thoroughly engaging&rdquo; thriller from &ldquo;a master storyteller,&rdquo; Before the Frost introduces an unforgettable new heroine to the acclaimed series that is the basis for the BBC television show starring Kenneth Branagh (San Francisco Chronicle).</div>

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Before the Frost

<div>An international bestseller: Murder becomes a high tech game of cat and mouse in this &ldquo;thinking man&rsquo;s thriller&rdquo; from the master of Nordic noir (The New York Times Book Review). Ystad, Sweden. A man stops at an ATM during his evening walk and inexplicably falls to the ground dead. Two teenage girls brutally murder a taxi driver. They are quickly apprehended, shocking local policemen with their complete lack of remorse. A few days later a blackout cuts power to a large swath of the country. When a serviceman arrives at the malfunctioning power substation, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander senses these events must be linked, but he has to figure out how and why. The search for answers eventually leads him dangerously close to a group of anarchic terrorists who hide in the shadows of cyberspace. Somehow, these criminals always seem to know the police department&rsquo;s next move. How can a small group of detectives unravel a plot designed to wreak havoc on a worldwide scale? And will they solve the riddle before it&rsquo;s too late? A riveting police procedural about our increasing vulnerability in the modern digitized world, Firewall &ldquo;proves once again that spending time with a glum police inspector in chilly Sweden can be quite thrilling . . . A notable success&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly).</div>

Firewall

<div>The story of the Swedish detective&rsquo;s beginnings, told in five gripping short mysteries: &ldquo;An indispensable chapter to the saga&rdquo; (Booklist Online). Here are the stories that trace, chronologically, Kurt Wallander&rsquo;s growth from a rookie cop into a young father and then a middle-aged divorc&eacute;, illuminating how he became a first-rate detective and highlighting new facets of the character who &ldquo;remains one of the most impressive and credible creations of crime fiction today&rdquo; (The Guardian). &ldquo;Wallander&rsquo;s First Case&rdquo; introduces us to the twenty-one-year-old patrolman on his first homicide case: his next-door neighbor, seemingly dead by his own hand. In &ldquo;The Man with the Mask&rdquo;, Wallander is a young father confronting an unexpected threat on Christmas Eve. On the brink of middle age, he is troubled by a distant wife as he unravels the poisoning of a lonely vacationer in &ldquo;The Man on the Beach.&rdquo; Newly separated in &ldquo;The Death of the Photographer,&rdquo; Wallander investigates the brutal murder&mdash;and the well-concealed secrets&mdash;of the local studio photographer. In the title story, he is a veteran detective uncovering unexpected connections between a downed mystery plane and the assassination of a pair of elderly sisters. Written from the unique perspective of an author looking back on the life of his own character, these mysteries are vintage Henning Mankell and essential reading for fans of the fiction series or the BBC program Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. The Pyramid is a wonderful display of Mankell&rsquo;s virtuosity powers as &ldquo;the unrivalled master of Swedish crime fiction and one of the finest practitioners of the genre anywhere&rdquo; (Toronto Star).</div>

The Pyramid

<div>Sweden&rsquo;s most tenacious detective races to unlock the twisted logic behind a madman&rsquo;s crimes: &ldquo;Lyrical, meticulous, and stunningly suspenseful&rdquo; (St. Petersburg Times). On Midsummer&rsquo;s Eve, three friends gather in a secluded meadow in Sweden. In the beautifully clear twilight, they don eighteenth-century costumes and begin a secret role-play. But an uninvited guest soon brings their performance to a gruesome conclusion. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect. Three bullets, three corpses. And his plans have only just begun to take shape. Meanwhile, Inspector Kurt Wallander is just back from vacation. Constantly fatigued, he soon learns his health is at risk&mdash;but there&rsquo;s no time for rest when a fellow officer is murdered. Wallander soon discovers that the two grisly crimes are connected. A serial killer is on the loose, and the only lead is a photograph of a strange woman no one in Sweden seems to know. Forced to dig into the personal life of a trusted colleague, Wallander steps into a nightmare worse than any he could have imagined. Can he find his way out of the darkness before it&rsquo;s too late? A pulse-pounding thriller and an incisive investigation into the mysteries of human nature, One Step Behind is &ldquo;typical of the dense, intricate intelligence that Mankell brings to detection and crime writing&rdquo; (The Washington Post Book World).</div>

One Step Behind

<div>From the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author: A story of one man&rsquo;s awakening and &ldquo;a heartfelt reminder of the many people whose struggles are never known&rdquo; (The Plain Dealer). Jesper Humlin, a poet of middling acclaim and underwhelming book sales, is facing a crisis. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin&rsquo;s investments, and his editor, who says he must write a crime novel to survive, starts pitching and promoting the nonexistent book despite Humlin&rsquo;s emphatic refusals. Then, when he travels to Gothenburg to give a reading, he finds himself thrust into a world where names shift, stories overlap, and histories are both deeply secret and in profound need of retelling. Leyla from Iran, Tanya from Russia, and Tea-Bag, who is from Africa but claims to be from Kurdistan (because Kurds might receive preferential treatment as refugees)&mdash;these are the shadow girls who become Humlin&rsquo;s unlikely pupils in impromptu writing workshops. Though he had imagined their stories as fodder for his own book, soon their intertwining lives require him to play a much different role. Offering both surprising humor and heartrending tragedy, The Shadow Girls is a &ldquo;passionate and entertaining&rdquo; triumph that will astonish longtime fans of Mankell&rsquo;s acclaimed Kurt Wallander novels as well as readers new to his work (The Daily Telegraph).</div>

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