Before the Frost: 9 - Brossura

Mankell, Henning

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1400095816 ISBN 13: 9781400095810

Casa editrice: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2006

Riassunto

Taking a position with the Ystad police force shortly after graduating, Linda Wallander, the daughter of veteran inspector Kurt Wallender, struggles with their contentious relationship before becoming embroiled in the case of a childhood friend, who has inexplicably disappeared. By the author of The Return of the Dancing Master. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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“Mankell is a master of the traditional arts of the crime novel, narrative pacing and suspense.” --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“An arresting story by an arresting writer ... [Mankell] understands and probes the underside of everyday living – in an elegant and artful way.... He is able to look loneliness square in the eye. The result is writing that walks a line between ephemeral and everlasting.”
–The Washington Post

“Powerful.... Thoroughly engaging.... Amazingly human characters.... It’s a testament to Mankell’s skill with plot that the story gets more and more urgent as he transforms a series of small mysteries into a much larger thriller.... Mankell [is] a master storyteller.”
–San Francisco Chronicle

“I salivate with anticipation at the prospect of more from the pen of Mankell, for he is one of the finest
of his genre – a Scandinavian Ian Rankin with a passion for exploring the dark side of human nature.... Mankell builds the tension with care and, as ever, his characters are cleverly rounded....
A masterpiece of atmospheric creation.”
–Glasgow Herald

“Few of this genre’s writers – few of any genre’s writers – have been able to balance the ordinary and the grotesque with such literary dash and page-turning brio.... Mankell’s atmospherics ... give you metaphysical goose bumps.”
–Boston Herald

L'autore:

Henning Mankell is the internatinally acclaimed, bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander novels.  Mankell's novels have been translated into forty-five languages and have sold more than forty million copies worldwide. He was the first winner of the Ripper Award and also received the Glass Key and the Crime Writers’ Association Golden Dagger, among other awards. His Kurt Wallander mysteries have been adapted into a PBS television series starring Kenneth Branagh. During his life, Mankell divided his time between Sweden and Mozambique, where he was artistic director of the Teatro Avenida in Maputo. He died in 2015.

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• Editore: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1400095816
• ISBN 13: 9781400095810
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384