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(0)Henning Mankell
Author
Series
Joel Gustafson volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 520L
Language
English
Description
Now almost fourteen, Joel becomes a local hero to his small Swedish town when he saves an old man from freezing to death in the woods.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This collection of five stories traces the growth of Swedish Inspector Kurt Wallander into a first-rate detective, from rookie cop to young father to middle-aged divorce. In "Wallander's First Case, " the twenty-one-year-old patrolman's first homicide case involves his next-door neighbor, seemingly dead by his own hand. Wallander is a young father confronting an unexpected threat on Christmas Eve in "The Man with the Mask." In "The Man on the Beach,...
Author
Series
Wallander volume 9.5
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After nearly thirty years in the same job, Inspector Kurt Wallander is tired, restless, and itching to make a change. He is taken with a certain old farmhouse, perfectly situated in a quiet countryside with a charming, overgrown garden. There he finds the skeletal hand of a corpse in a shallow grave. Wallander's investigation takes him deep into the history of the house and the land, until finally the shocking truth about a long-buried secret is brought...
25) The shadow girls
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Jesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin's investments, and his editor, who says he must write a crime novel to survive, begins to pitch and promote the nonexistent book despite Humlin's emphatic refusals. Then, when he travels to Gothenburg to give a reading, he finds himself...
26) Italian shoes
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Fredrik Welin is a reclusive ex-surgeon living alone on a tiny island in the north of Sweden. His only companions are a pair of aged pets, and the only society callers to his living room are ants that are transforming his table into an enormous anthill. Every morning, the loner goes out to the frozen lake, cuts a hole in the ice, and then plunges himself into the freezing water to remind himself that he is still alive. Four women enter his life: Harriet,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
In Sweden in 1956, eleven-year-old Joel and his father, a logger who was once a sailor, live alone with their secrets, including Joel's secret society that meets at night and his father's new romantic interest.
32) El chino
Author
Series
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Una helada mañana de enero de 2006, un fótografo hace un descubrimiento aterrador: en el pueblecito sueco de Hesjövallen, aparecen brutalmente asesinadas diecinueve personas. La policia sospecha que es obra de un perturbado; pero la jueza Birgitta Roslin, que se interesa por el caso en cuanto sabe que entre las víctimas figura la familia adoptiva de su madre, sostiene otra teoría. Una cinta de seda roja encontrada en la nieve le pone en...
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Swedish
Description
A lifetime of police work has left Detective Kurt Wallander with the look of a man who's seen too much. Recently recovered from a heart attack, veteran Wallander works alongside his daughter Linda, a recent academy graduate, and Stefan Lindman, a young detective eager to prove himself. Together, they solve cases in the Swedish seaside city of Ystad and confront the darkest recesses of the human heart.
Before the frost: A series of bizarre, ghoulish...
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In The White Lioness, Wallander is drawn into the case of a missing Swedish national while attending a police conference in South Africa. The second film sees Wallander back in Sweden, where a woman's body is discovered half buried in the forest swamps. And in The Troubled Man, Wallander is in a race against time as he embarks on his final case - the disappearance of his daughter's father-in-law.
