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The Return of the Dancing Master

By Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson (Translator)

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| Hardcover | 9781843430582

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The new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mystery series.

It would be nearly two hours before he died. As if in a borderland of horror between the nagging pain and the hopeless will to live, he was taken back in time, to the occasion when he engaged thContinue

The new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mystery series.

It would be nearly two hours before he died. As if in a borderland of horror between the nagging pain and the hopeless will to live, he was taken back in time, to the occasion when he engaged the fate that had now caught up with him.—from The Return of the Dancing Master

December 12, 1945. Nazi Germany lies in ruins as a British warplane lands in Buckeburg. A man carrying a small black bag quickly disembarks and travels to Hameln, where he disappears behind the prison gates. Early the next day, nine male and three female war criminals are hanged.

Fifty-four years later, retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in Härjedalen, Sweden. At the murder scene, the police discover strange tracks in the blood on the floor...as if someone had been practicing the tango.

Stefan Lindman, a young police officer on extended sick leave, hears about the murder of his former colleague and decides to investigate it himself. Lindman's inquiry becomes increasingly complex and dangerous as he uncovers the links between Herbert Molin's death and a global web of neo-Nazi activity.

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  • Parallax

    Henning Mankell’s recent series of police procedurals set in the southern Swedish town of Ystad, with Inspector Kurt Wallander as their hero, is a perfect illustration of the fate of the detective novel in the era of global capitalism. The main effec ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

  • Bookreporter.com - THE RETURN OF THE DANCING MASTER by Henning Mankell, translated by Laurie Thompson

    I've always loved a mystery, but I'm picky. A lot of authors who regularly make the bestseller lists leave me as cold as the corpses they write about (I'm not naming names for fear of casting aspersions on anyone else's taste). My pantheon includes t ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010

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