Depths (33 page)
Harvill Crime
in
Vintage
HENNING MANKELL
'Mankell could turn you to crime'
Daily Telegraph
Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage night time attack. Months later in Sweden, the news of the unexplained tragedy sets off a cruel vengeance for these killings.
Inspector Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles in, and Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly bird-watcher he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder – a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles.
Once again Wallander's life is on hold as he and his team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of vicious murders. Making progress through dogged police work and forever battling to make sense of the violence of modern Sweden, Wallander leads a massive investigation to find a killer whose crimes are the product of new realities that make him despair.
'The real test of thrillers is whether you want to spend
more time in the detective's company. I certainly do'
Sean French,
Independent
Harvill Crime
in
Vintage
HENNING MANKELL
'Inspector Wallander has touches of Dexter's Inspector Morse about him, while remaining an original and highly likeable creation'
The Times
A girl commits suicide in baffling circumstances. Three vicious murders shatter the tranquillity of the Swedish province of Skåne. Is there a connection? Inspector Wallander must find out.
Midsummer approaches, and Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life. But his summer is ruined when a girl commits suicide before his eyes, and a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. Wallander's hunt for the girl's identity and his furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him and those he loves most into mortal danger.
'Another terrific offering from the talented Mankell'
Publishers Weekly
'Inspector Wallander is one of the most wonderful
creations in contemporary crime writing'
Le Monde