HENNING MANKELL

Henning Mankell Rémi Cassaigne (Traducteur) En octobre 1914, l'Europe est au bord de la guerre. Afin d'améliorer la défense des côtes suédoises, le capitaine Lars Tobiasson-Svartman inspecte les routes maritimes. Sur la toute petite île de Sara Fredrika, il rencontre une femme dont il devient l'amant. Pour la revoir, il ment à sa femme, à...

Hans Olofson is the son of a Swedish lumberjack. His childhood was unsettled: an alcoholic father, and a mother disappeared, only alive in old photographs. His adolescence was no easier as he lost both his best friend and his lover tragically. Alone and adrift, as a young man his only desire is to fulfil his lover's dream and visit the grave of ...

One night José Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. He races to the theatre's uppermost gallery, and there beneath him on a spotlit stage lies the wounded body of Nelio, a street urchin renowned for living on his wits. Gasping, the wounded boy asks to be taken to the roof to breathe the beautiful air...

Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has two obsessions: one is the tango and the other is a conviction that he is being hunted, constantly pursued by 'demons'. He has no close friends, no close neighbours, and by the time his body is eventually found, Molin is al...

A la vida de l'inspector Kurt Wallander hi ha hagut alguns canvis: no només ha fet realitat el vell somni de tenir una casa al camp, sinó que a més la seva filla Linda l'ha fet avi. Però la tranquil·litat de seguida s'esvaeix quan un dia d'hivern de 2008 el sogre de Linda, un oficial d'alt rang de la Marina sueca anomenat Håkan von Enke, desapar...