London: Vintage. Good. 129 x 198 x 33mm. Paperback. 2011. 566 pages. <br> ADVENTURE / THRILLER. One cold January day the po lice are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seem s eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking f or ... .

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The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andrens, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andren family in Nevada has also been murdered. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andren ancestor--a gang master on the American transcontinental railway--that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the Hesjovallen murders, but Birgitta is determined to uncover what she now suspects is a more complicated truth.The investigation leads to the highest echelons of power in present-day Beijing, and to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But the narrative also takes us back 150 years into the depths of the slave trade between China and the United States--a history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer to solving the Hesjovallen murders.From the Hardcover edition.

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Title: The man from Beijing
Author: Henning Mankell
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good
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ISBN 10: 0099532042
ISBN 13: 9780099532040
Publisher: Vintage
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2011
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