Henning Mankell
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 576 pages Rating: 3.84 | 16833 Users | 1070 Reviews
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| Title | : | The White Lioness (Kurt Wallander #3) |
| Author | : | Henning Mankell |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 576 pages |
| Published | : | September 4th 2003 by Vintage (first published 1993) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Thriller. Cultural. Sweden. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature |
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The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough, the cops catch up with him. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, they realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex—and dangerous. Combining compelling insights into the sinister side of modern life with a riveting tale of international intrigue, The White Lioness keeps you on the knife-edge of suspense.List Books In Favor Of The White Lioness (Kurt Wallander #3)
| Original Title: | Den vita lejoninnan |
| ISBN: | 0099464691 (ISBN13: 9780099464693) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Kurt Wallander #3, Wallander #4 |
| Characters: | Kurt Wallander, Louise Åkerblom, Anatoli Konovalenko, Victor Mabasha, President de Klerk, Pastor Tureson, Robert Åkerblom, Linda Wallander, Vladimir Rykoff |
| Setting: | Sweden South Africa |
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Ratings: 3.84 From 16833 Users | 1070 ReviewsCriticism Appertaining To Books The White Lioness (Kurt Wallander #3)
Review from Badelynge.After the underwhelming Dogs of Riga I was hoping for a big fat Swedish murder investigation this time. The White Lioness is a far superior animal by far but it's also not entirely that big fat dose of Wallander I wanted. Written just before South Africa would throw away the worst of its horrific identity, Mankell once again writes a book that is so very rooted in the time of its writing - here the early 90s leading up to the eventual free elections in 1994. The firstSo far it's been my experience that the Kurt Wallander series seems to improve with each successive novel. This one was rich in setting, characters, and interwoven incidents that held my attention throughout. A very good read to me.
I approached The White Lioness tentatively, afraid that I wouldn't like it and that it could very well mark the end of my appreciation for the written Wallander.Faceless Killers was a somewhat uninspired though compelling murder mystery. It was straightforward, and exactly what one would expect from the story of a taciturn Swedish cop in quiet Ystad. Coupled with the BBC movies, it was more than enough to make me want to proceed in the series. Dogs of Riga, however, was something else entirely.
Read this book in Dutch.
Some of the best police procedural/mystery writing is coming out of the Scandinavian countries. Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, for example, also come from Sweden, and their work is consistently excellent. Not to mention there must ne some very good translators working on these books. Mankell, who wrote this in 1993 as apartheid was beginning to crumble, has little love for those white South Africans who wanted to retain the status quo. In this, one of his lengthier works, his protagonist, Chief
This, the third entry in Henning Mankell's series featuring Swedish Inspector Kurt Wallander, appeared in 1993, and is a very ambitious effort--in the end, perhaps overly so. The story starts simply enough with the murder of a real estate agent who finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time, but it quickly spins into a major international conspiracy involving a plot by die-hard South African whites to assassinate Nelson Mandela, shortly after he was released from prison.The plotters have
One of those books for which I stayed up late three nights in a row to read. Mankell's famous chief inspector Wallander is an interesting mess of a man: fundamentally pragmatic, noble, and kind-hearted but with patches of the naive and the childishly impulsive. This book in particular focuses on how he, a small-town Swedish policeman, is faced with the fact that globalization and more porous borders is affecting his everyday practice...and possibly his ethics. Is his Sweden changing for the
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