Description: Inspector Kurt Wallander's look into the execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife leads to an investigation of international scope and harrowing consequences, involving a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela.
Review Quotes: "A first-class thriller." --Margo Jefferson, The New York Times Book Review
"It is Wallander's voice . . . that captures us." --New York Times Book Review "Mankell joins the worthy ranks of such past masters as Georges Simenon [and] Nicholas Freeling." --The Wall Street Journal "It is not hard to see why the Wallander books have made a particular impact." --Times Literary Supplement