<div>Stories by Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, and over a dozen other masters of Nordic noir: &ldquo;A wonderful collection&rdquo; (Camilla L?ckberg). Ever since Stieg Larsson shone a light on Swedish crime writing with his Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, readers around the world have devoured fiction by Scandinavian masters of suspense. A Darker Shade of Sweden includes an assortment of outstanding crime fiction&mdash;never before published in English and in some cases brand-new to this volume&mdash;from Larsson and a wide range of other talents including Henning Mankell, the creator of Kurt Wallander; &Aring;sa Larsson; Eva Gabrielsson; Inger Frimansson; &Aring;ke Edwardson; Sara Stridsberg; Maj Sj&ouml;wall and Per Wahl&ouml;&ouml;; and more. Also included is an introduction by Edgar nominee John-Henri Holmberg, exploring the history of these stellar authors and their contributions to crime writing. &ldquo;Gripping. . . . These unsettlingly dark tales reaffirm the dominance of Swedish writers with original crime fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;The Sun (UK)</div>

A Darker Shade of Sweden

<div>&ldquo;A deeply moving account of Henning Mankell&rsquo;s personal responses to AIDS and its victims, both parents and children left behind far too soon.&rdquo; &mdash;Archbishop Desmond Tutu The internationally famous creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries tells the true story of a heartrending tradition spawned by a major health crisis: the invaluable Memory Book Project, which gives those dying of AIDS an opportunity to record their lives in words and pictures for the children they leave behind. In Uganda, Mankell finds village after village populated only by children and the elderly&mdash;those left behind after AIDS swept away an entire generation. These slim, intensely personal volumes can contain words, pictures, a pressed butterfly, or even grains of sand as ways to represent the lives lost to this devastating plague. Excerpts from Ugandan memory books appear throughout I Die, but My Memory Lives On and, together with Mankell&rsquo;s narrative, they tell the stories of individual lives while sounding a powerful warning about the threat of AIDS. Featuring a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the book includes an appendix listing AIDS organizations and resources. A portion of the book&rsquo;s proceeds will be donated to AIDS charities in Africa.</div>

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I Die, but My Memory Lives On

<div>A demented killer is on the warpath and only Wallander can stop him: &ldquo;Mankell at his best . . . If you haven&rsquo;t bought Sidetracked, do so ASAP&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Inspector Kurt Wallander&rsquo;s long-anticipated vacation plans are interrupted by two horrific deaths: the self-immolation of an unidentified young woman and the brutal murder of the former minister of justice. As the police struggle to piece together the few clues they have, the killer strikes again and again. What connection is there between a retired minister of justice, a successful art dealer, and a common petty thief? Why does the killer scalp his victims? And could there be some connection between the young woman&rsquo;s suicide and the murders? Sidetracked, winner of the Best Crime Novel of the Year in Sweden, is an outstanding entry in the series that inspired the BBC program Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. Mankell, called &ldquo;the King of Crime&rdquo; by the Economist, infuses police procedural with a searing critique of contemporary society, from the disintegration of the family and the exploitation of women to corruption and scandal at the highest levels of government. &ldquo;Connoisseurs of the police procedural will tear into this installment like the seven-course banquet it is.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Sidetracked

<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>

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>From the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander novels: An &ldquo;absorbing&rdquo; and &ldquo;chilling&rdquo; historical mystery &ldquo;dripping with evil atmosphere&rdquo; (The Times, London). December 12, 1945. The Third Reich lies in ruins as a British warplane lands in B&uuml;ckeburg, Germany. A man carrying a small black bag quickly disembarks and travels to Hamelin, where he disappears behind the prison gates. Early the next day, England&rsquo;s most experienced hangman executes twelve war criminals. Fifty-four years later, retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in H&auml;rjedalen, Sweden. The police discover strange tracks in the blood on the floor . . . as if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman is a young police officer who has just been diagnosed with cancer of the tongue. When he reads about the murder of his former colleague, he decides to travel north and find out what happened. Soon he is enmeshed in a puzzling investigation with no witnesses and no discernible motives. Terrified of the illness that could take his life, Lindman becomes more and more reckless as he uncovers the links between Molin&rsquo;s death, World War II, and an underground neo-Nazi network. Mankell&rsquo;s impeccably researched historical thriller is &ldquo;a worthy successor to the Wallander whodunits&rdquo; (The Sunday Telegraph). &ldquo;[Mankell] never fails to find a deep vein of humanity within the perpetually furrowed brows of his troubled cops.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist</div>

The Return of the Dancing Master

<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>From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander Mysteries: An &ldquo;uplifting . . . grittily realistic&rdquo; fable about war-torn Africa and a mystical orphan boy (The New York Times). A single gunshot cracks the silence of a hot African night. On the rooftop of a local theater company, a ten-year-old boy slowly dies of bullet wounds. He is Nelio, a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer and a prophet, and possessed of a strangely ancient wisdom. One of the millions of poor people &ldquo;forced to eat life raw,&rdquo; Nelio refuses to be taken to the hospital. Instead, he tells the unforgettable story of his life to a sole witness. Over the course of nine nights, a baker named Jos&eacute; Antonio Maria Vaz listens as bandits cruelly raze Nelio&rsquo;s village, propelling him to join the legions of abandoned children living in the streets. A grand act of imagination intended to prove to his comrades that existence must be more than mere survival, cuts Nelio&rsquo;s life short. As the tale unfolds, Jos&eacute; is forever changed. He becomes the &ldquo;Chronicler of the Winds&rdquo;, vowing to reveal Nelio&rsquo;s magical words to all who will listen. Shortlisted for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature and nominated for the Swedish Publishers Association&rsquo;s August Prize, Chronicler of the Winds is a beautifully crafted novel that is a testament to the power of storytelling itself. &ldquo;Mankell writes eloquently of the realities of poverty and violence without becoming sugary or didactic. . . . An expert craftsman&rdquo; (The Observer).</div>

Chronicler of the Winds

<div>The master of Scandinavian crime fiction spins a dark tale of passion and deceit set during World War I: &ldquo;A memorable and shocking psychological study&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). October, 1914. Swedish naval officer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is charged with a secret mission to take depth readings around the Stockholm archipelago. In the course of his work, he lands on the rocky isle of Halssk&auml;r. It seems utterly inhabitable, yet Halssk&auml;r is home to the young widow Sara Fredrika. Lars soon learns that Sara, living in near-total isolation, is unaware that the world is at war. A man of control and precision, Lars is overwhelmed by his attraction to the half-wild, illiterate Sara, a total contrast to his reserved, elegant wife. Giving in to the worst of his impulses, Lars turns into a far more dangerous man&mdash;one ready to trade in lies and even death to get closer to the lonely woman without losing hold of his wife. All thoughts of shame, fidelity, and duty are swept to sea as he struggles to maintain his parallel lives, with devastating consequences for the women who love him. Henning Mankell, author of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander Mysteries and the critically acclaimed Chronicler of the Winds, once again proves himself a master of the novel with this arresting, disquieting story of obsession.</div>

Depths

<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>

The Shadow Girls

<div>A small-town murder leads to international intrigue in this &ldquo;first-class thriller&rdquo; from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling master of Scandinavian crime (The New York Times Book Review). Inspector Kurt Wallander returns in the second of Henning Mankell&rsquo;s award-winning, internationally-bestselling detective novels, this time to investigate the execution-style killing of a Swedish housewife. The local police focus on a determined stalker who&rsquo;s suddenly nowhere to be found, but when they finally catch up with their prime suspect his alibi turns out to be airtight. Digging deeper, Wallander discovers that the woman&rsquo;s death is more complex and dangerous than a crime of passion. His search for the truth takes him far from home and into the murky world of apartheid-era South Africa, where he uncovers a sinister assassination plot. Soon the small-town detective finds himself in a high-stakes tangle with the South African secret service and a ruthless ex-KGB agent. Combining heart-pounding suspense with probing social commentary, The White Lioness is an essential chapter in the addictive mystery series that inspired the hit TV show Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. &ldquo;It is not hard to see why the Wallander books have made such an impact&rdquo; (The Times Literary Supplement).</div>

The White Lioness

<div>From the #1 international-bestselling master of Scandinavian noir: a &ldquo;marvelously told mystery&rdquo; of murder in Sweden and corruption in Africa (Austin American-Statesman). In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are found with their throats slit. The local police do little to investigate . . . and cover up the unknown woman&rsquo;s death. A year later in Sweden, Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and birdwatcher, is skewered to death after falling into a pit of carefully sharpened bamboo poles. Soon after, the body of a missing florist is discovered strangled and tied to a tree. Baffled and appalled by the crimes, the only clues Inspector Kurt Wallander has to go on are a skull, a diary, and a photo of three men. What ensues is a complex, meticulously plotted investigation that will push the detective to his limits. The key is the unsolved killing of the fifth woman in Africa&mdash;who was she, and what did she have to do with the brutal deaths of two seemingly innocent men? Are more victims in danger? The answers will lead Wallander to question everything he thought he knew about the psychology of murder. An international bestseller, this &ldquo;scary and cunning tale&rdquo; (Rocky Mountain News) &ldquo;achieves the satisfying density of plot and characterization&rdquo; that established Henning Mankell as one of the twentieth-century&rsquo;s finest crime writers. His Kurt Wallander mysteries are now the basis for the hit TV show Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh (The Baltimore Sun).</div>

The Fifth Woman

<div>A #1 international bestseller: This &ldquo;exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth&rdquo; launched the acclaimed Wallander Mysteries and BBC series starring Kenneth Branagh (Los Angeles Times). Early one morning, a small-town farmer discovers that his neighbors have been victims of a brutal attack during the night: An old man has been bludgeoned to death, and his tortured wife lies dying before the farmer&rsquo;s eyes. The only clue is the single word she utters before she dies: &ldquo;foreign.&rdquo; In charge of the investigation is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local detective whose personal life is in a shambles. His family is falling apart, he&rsquo;s gaining weight, and he drinks too much and sleeps too little. Tenacious and levelheaded in his sleuthing, he and his colleagues must contend with a wave of violent xenophobia as they search for the killers. Winner of the Sweden&rsquo;s Best Mystery Award and the first installment in the series that inspired the PBS program Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh, Faceless Killers is a razor-sharp, stylishly dark police procedural with searing social commentary that reaches beyond its genre to produce &ldquo;a superior novel&mdash;and a harbinger of great things to come&rdquo; (Booklist).</div>

Faceless Killers

<div>The bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander series delivers a &ldquo;short, beautiful, and ultimately life-affirming novel&rdquo; about the path to self-acceptance (Booklist). From the prize-winning &ldquo;master of atmosphere&rdquo; comes the surprising and affecting story of a man well past middle age who suddenly finds himself on the threshold of renewal (The Boston Globe). Living on a tiny island that is surrounded by ice during the long winter months, Fredrik Welin is so lost to the world that he cuts a hole in the ice every morning and lowers himself into the freezing water to remind himself that he is alive. Haunted by memories of the terrible mistake that drove him to this island and away from a successful career as a surgeon, he lives in a stasis so complete that an anthill grows undisturbed in his living room. When an unexpected visitor disrupts this frigid existence, Frederik begins an eccentric, elegiac journey&mdash;one that displays the full height of Henning Mankell&rsquo;s storytelling powers. A deeply human tale of loss and redemption, Italian Shoes is &ldquo;a voyage into the soul of a man&rdquo; expertly crafted with &ldquo;snares that Mankell has hidden with a hunter&rsquo;s skill inside this spectral landscape&rdquo; (The Guardian). &ldquo;Beautiful.&rdquo; &mdash;The Boston Globe &ldquo;A fine meditation on love and loss.&rdquo; &mdash;The Sunday Telegraph &ldquo;Intense and precisely detailed. . . . A hopeful account of a man released from self-imposed withdrawal.&rdquo; &mdash;The Independent &ldquo;The creator of police detective Kurt Wallander presents a tale of mortal reckoning in which all the deaths are natural but none the less powerful.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Italian Shoes

<div>From the creator of the acclaimed Kurt Wallander series: A thrilling story set in Sweden and Zambia told with &ldquo;heart-stopping tension&rdquo; (Entertainment Weekly). Interweaving past and present, The Eye of the Leopard draws on bestselling author Henning Mankell&rsquo;s deep understanding of both Scandinavia and post-colonial Africa. Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia in the 1970s, at the start of its independence. There, he hopes to fulfill the missionary dream of a boyhood friend who was unable to make the journey. But he is also there to flee the traumas of his motherless childhood in provincial Sweden: his father&rsquo;s alcoholism, his best friend&rsquo;s terrible accident, his fear of an ordinary and stifled fate. Africa is a terrible shock, yet he stays and makes it his home. In all his years as a mzungu, a wealthy white man among native blacks, he never comes to fully understand his adoptive home, or his precarious place in it. Rumors of an underground army of revolutionaries wearing leopard skins warn him that the fragile truce between blacks and whites is in danger of rupturing. Alternating between Hans&rsquo;s years in Africa and those of his youth in Sweden, The Eye of the Leopard is a bravura achievement and a study in contrasts&mdash;black and white, poor and wealthy, Africa and Europe&mdash;both sinister and elegiac. &ldquo;Mankell&rsquo;s novels are a joy.&rdquo; &mdash;USA Today &ldquo;A fascinating novel . . . [the] prose is powerful, and the narrative of The Eye of the Leopard is profound.&rdquo; &mdash;Bookreporter.com &ldquo;A thought-provoking, multilayered novel whose themes will challenge and linger.&rdquo; &mdash;The Courier Mail &ldquo;Mankell is a master of atmosphere and suspense.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times &ldquo;Mankell&rsquo;s novels are the best Swedish export since flatpack furniture.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;Beautiful, heartbreaking, yet ultimately hopeful . . . A powerful exploration of the stresses and challenges of freedom.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist, starred review</div>

The Eye of the Leopard

<div>The #1 international-bestselling tale of greed, violence, and corporate power from the master of Scandinavian noir: &ldquo;One of his best&rdquo; (The Times, London). After killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself deep in a personal and professional crisis; during more than a year of sick leave, he turns to drink and vice to quiet his lingering demons. Once he pulls himself together, he vows to quit the Ystad police force for good&mdash;just before a friend who had asked Wallander to look into the death of his father winds up dead himself, shot three times. Far from leaving police work behind, Wallander instead must investigate a formidable suspect: a powerful business tycoon at the helm of a multinational company engaged in extralegal activities. Ann-Britt H&ouml;glund, the department&rsquo;s first female detective, proves to be Wallander&rsquo;s best ally as he tries to pierce the smiling fa&ccedil;ade of the suspicious mogul. But just as he comes close to uncovering the truth, Wallander finds his own life being threatened. In this &ldquo;exquisitely plotted&rdquo; thriller, Henning Mankell&rsquo;s mastery of the modern police procedural&mdash;which has earned him legions of fans worldwide and inspired the BBC show Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh&mdash;is on vivid display (Publishers Weekly). &ldquo;This is crime fiction of the highest order.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review &ldquo;Compelling . . . Skillfully plotted and suspenseful. . . . A thriller for the thinking reader.&rdquo; &mdash;The Dallas Morning News &ldquo;Mankell&rsquo;s novels are a joy.&rdquo; &mdash;USA Today &ldquo;Absorbing. . . . In the masterly manner of P.D. James, Mankell projects his hero&rsquo;s brooding thoughts onto nature itself.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;Wallander is a loveable gumshoe. . . . He is one of the most credible creations in contemporary crime fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian</div>

The Man Who Smiled

<div>From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander novels: The &ldquo;haunting and fascinating&rdquo; tale of a young boy&rsquo;s harrowing odyssey from Africa to Sweden (Booklist). In the 1870s, Hans Bengler arrives in Cape Town from Sm&aring;land, Sweden, driven by a singular desire: to discover an insect no one has seen before and name it after himself. But then he impulsively adopts a young San orphan boy whose parents have been killed by European colonists. Christening the boy Daniel, Hans brings him back to Sweden&mdash;a quite different specimen than he first contemplated. Daniel is told to call Bengler &ldquo;Father,&rdquo; and to knock on doors and bow. He continually struggles to understand this strange new land of mud and snow that surrounds and seemingly entraps him. At the same time, he is haunted by visions of his murdered parents calling him home to Africa. Knowing that the only way home is by sea, he decides he must learn to walk on water if he is ever to reclaim his true place in the world. Evocative and sometimes brutal, the novel follows Daniel through a series of tragedies and betrayals that culminate in a shocking act. Henning Mankell, a world-renowned &ldquo;master of atmosphere,&rdquo; offers this &ldquo;quiet tragedy&rdquo; with a ruthless elegance all his own (The Boston Globe).</div>

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