The man from Beijing / Henning Mankell ; translated by Laurie Thompson.

By: Mankell, Henning, 1948-2015Contributor(s): Thompson, Laurie, 1938-Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publication details: London : Harvill Secker, 2010Description: 361 p. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781846552571 (hbk.); 1846552575 (hbk.)Subject(s): Massacres -- Fiction | Suspense fiction | Swedish fiction -- Translations into English | Massacres Sweden Fiction | Serial murder investigation Sweden Fiction | Women judges Fiction | Revenge Fiction | Suspense -- Fiction | Revenge -- Fiction | Serial murder investigation -- Sweden -- Fiction | Serial murder investigation -- Sweden -- Fiction | Revenge -- Fiction | Massacres -- Sweden -- Fiction | Women judges -- Fiction | Massacres | Revenge | Serial murder investigation | Women judges | Kriminalroman | Schwedisch | SwedenGenre/Form: Suspense fiction. | Suspense fiction. | Fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). | Thrillers (Fiction). DDC classification: 839.7374 LOC classification: PT9876.23.A49 | M36 2010Other classification: Heec.01 | Hcce.01
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Pt. 1 The Silence (2006) -- The Epitaph -- The Judge -- Pt. 2 The Railroad (1863) -- The Way to Canton -- The Feather and the Stone -- Pt. 3 The Red Ribbon (2006) -- The Rebels -- The Chinese Game -- Pt. 4 The Colonisers (2006) -- Bark Peeled Off by Elephants -- Chinatown, London.
Summary: "One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they find the victim of a savage murder lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily Quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a crime unprecedented in Swedish history." "When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved and decides to investigate. A nineteenth-century diary and a red silk ribbon found in the forest nearby are her only clues." "What Birgitta eventually uncovers leads her into an international web of corruption and a story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years. The Man from Beijing is both a gripping and perceptive political thriller and a compelling detective story." --Book Jacket.
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Translation of: Kinesen.

Machine generated contents note: Pt. 1 The Silence (2006) -- The Epitaph -- The Judge -- Pt. 2 The Railroad (1863) -- The Way to Canton -- The Feather and the Stone -- Pt. 3 The Red Ribbon (2006) -- The Rebels -- The Chinese Game -- Pt. 4 The Colonisers (2006) -- Bark Peeled Off by Elephants -- Chinatown, London.

"One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they find the victim of a savage murder lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily Quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a crime unprecedented in Swedish history." "When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved and decides to investigate. A nineteenth-century diary and a red silk ribbon found in the forest nearby are her only clues." "What Birgitta eventually uncovers leads her into an international web of corruption and a story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years. The Man from Beijing is both a gripping and perceptive political thriller and a compelling detective story." --Book Jacket.

Translated from the Swedish.

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