The White Lioness
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  • Published: 1 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099571698
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $27.99

The White Lioness

Kurt Wallander

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When a pillar of the local community vanishes, Inspector Kurt Wallander has a feeling the victim will never be found alive, but he has no idea how far he will have to go in search of the killer...

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Sidetracked.

In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation and no motive. Inspector Wallander and his team are called in to investigate.

As Inspector Wallander is introduced to this missing person's case he has a gut feeling that the victim will never be found alive, but he has no idea how far he will have to go in search of the killer. In South Africa, Nelson Mandela has made his long walk to freedom, setting in train the country's painful journey towards the end of the apartheid. Wallander and his colleagues find themselves caught up in a complex web involving renegade members of South Africa's secret service and a former KGB agent, all of whom are set upon halting Mandela's rise to power.

Faced with an increasingly globalised world in which international terrorism knows no national borders, Wallander must prevent a hideous crime that means to dam the tide of history.
  • Published: 1 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099571698
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell (1948-2015) became a worldwide phenomenon with his crime writing, gripping thrillers and atmospheric novels set in Africa. His prizewinning and critically acclaimed Inspector Wallander Mysteries continue to dominate bestseller lists all over the globe and his books have been translated into forty-five languages and made into numerous international film and television adaptations: most recently the BAFTA-award-winning BBC television series Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh.

Driven by a desire to change the world and to fight against racism and nationalism, Mankell devoted much of his time to working with charities in Africa, including SOS Children’s Villages and PLAN International, where he was also director of the Teatro Avenida in Maputo. In 2008, the University of St Andrews conferred Henning Mankell with an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in recognition of his major contribution to literature and to the practical exercise of conscience.

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Praise for The White Lioness

Superbly crafted detective stories

Christopher Gray, Oxford Times

The real test of thrillers of this kind is whether you want to spend more time in the detective's company. I certainly do

Sean French, Independent

Mankell is one of the most ingenious crime writers around, strong on characterisation, plotting and atmosphere. Highly recommended

Peter Gutteridge, Observer

Well paced... A thinking man's thriller

New York Times