Books by Henning Mankell

I have undertaken a journey from my childhood to the man I am today, writing about the key events in my life, and about the people who have given me new perspectives. It is a book about how humanity has lived and continues to live, and about how I have lived and continue to live my own life.

I Die But the Memory Lives on is a fable illustrating the importance of books as a means of education, of preserving memories and of sharing life.

Some cases aren't as cold as you'd thinkKurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is accepted, only for him to uncover something unexpected in the garden - the skeleton of a middle-aged woman.

Showing all the hallmarks of her father - the maverick approach, the flaring temper - she becomes involved in the case and in the process is forced to confront a group of extremists bent on punishing the world's sinners.

When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. From the stabbing of a neighbour in 1969 to a light aircraft accident in 1989, every story is a vital piece of the Wallander series, showing Mankell at the top of his game.

Stopping to use a cash machine one evening, a man falls to the ground: dead. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked - somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective.

A year later, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher and discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles.

In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, a young housewife, a pillar of the Methodist church, disappears and Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. But he soon discovers that the chain of events leading to her disappearance began far away in South African.

Spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good.

Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea, to Riga in Latvia, where he is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats, and lies. Doomed always to be one step behind the shadowy figures he pursues, only Wallander's obstinate desire to see that justice is done brings the truth to light.

Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm.

Hans Bengler, a young entomologist, leaves Sweden for the Kalahari Desert, determined to find a previously undiscovered insect to name after himself and advance his career.

It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is it the same killer, and what could the connection be? In this investigation Wallander is always, tantalisingly, one step behind.

One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow.

Tea-Bag, a young Nigerian girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Harried by his mother and girlfriend, misunderstood by his publisher and tormented by his stockbroker, Jesper needs a new perspective on life.

However, once there Welin discovers that Harriet has left the biggest surprise until last. If you enjoyed Italian Shoes, the new Henning Mankell novel featuring Fredrik Welin, After the Fire, is available now.

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings for the Swedish navy. Close to where soundings are taken, Lars rows out to a barren reef, presumed uninhabited, and discovers a young woman there.

WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR SIDETRACKEDHerbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has no close friends, no close neighbours, and by the time his body is eventually found, Molin is almost unrecognisable.

When archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide.

A moving, deeply affecting story about street children in Africa, from the bestselling writer behind the Kurt Wallander series One night Jose hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. On that theatre roof, his life ebbing away, Nelio begins to tell Jose his extraordinary story...

'Absorbing, chilling and dripping with evil atmosphere' The TimesSince his mother's disappearance, Hans Olofson has led an isolated life.

Den verdenskendte svenske krimiforfatter, Henning Mankell, kører galt i sin bil en vinterdag. Bilen er totalskadet, Mankell har umiddelbart ingen alvorlige mén, men lader sig for en sikkerheds skyld røntgenfotografere. Resultatet er en kræftdiagnose, som han får i januar 2014. Dette er rammen om Henning Mankells nye bog. EN ALVORLIG HISTORIE OM GLÆDEN VED LIVET er en selvbiografisk bog, der imidlertid handler meget mere om det levede liv end om døden. Sygdommen giver Mankell inspiration til at skrive om, hvad det vil sige at være menneske. Med afsæt i både kulturhistorien og i sin egen farverige historie på flere kontinenter skriver Mankell om kærlighed og jalousi, mod og angst – og om en stædig livslyst, som trænger sig mere og mere på.

Den 12. december 1945 stiger en enkelt passager ud af et anonymt militærfly i det besejrede Nazityskland. Næste dag henrettes ni mandlige og tre kvindelige krigsforbrydere. I oktober 1999 findes den pensionerede politimand Herbert Molin tortureret ihjel uden for sit ensomt beliggende hus i Härjedalen. Inde i hytten ser det ud til, at nogen har danset med mordofferet. Der er tangotrin i blodet på gulvet. I Borås læser den 37-årige sygemeldte politibetjent Stefan Lindman om mordet på Molin, en kollega, han respekterede. Han tager af sted for privat at finde ud af, hvad der er sket.

Tre unge iført kostumer udfører et gammelt ritual i skoven, før de sporløst forsvinder. En betjent dræbes og Wallander må kulegrave sin kollegas fortid.

"Sidste bind om Wallander, i en sag som begynder i hans ukendte fortid med hans nabos død, og fortsætter 20 år senere med nye mord; og undervejs må Wallander til Egypten for at redde sin far."

"Midt på kørebanen står en stol, med en skikkelse fastbundet. Da en forbipasserende stopper op, får han et slag i baghovedet. Sådan forestiller Wallander sagen sig; men vikles hurtigt ind i et langt større spil om økonomisk kriminalitet."

"En mand spiddet af bambuspinde i en fælde; en anden bundet til et træ og henrettet. De bestialske mord i Skåne er en sag for Wallander."

 En dag i 2004 rejser den svenske arkæolog Louise Cantor hjem fra sit arbejde i Grækenland til Stockholm for at besøge sin voksne søn Henrik. Men Henrik ligger død i sin lejlighed, og alt tyder på selvmord. Louise nægter at tro det og beslutter sig for at efterforske Henriks sidste tid. Hun opdager, at han havde mange hemmeligheder for hende - blandt andet en lejlighed i Barcelona og en afrikansk kæreste. Og så var han tilsyneladende sygeligt optaget af konspirationsteorier, for eksempel den berømte om, at Kennedys hjerne skulle være blevet stjålet fra hans lig kort efter attentatet. Louise rejser til Mozambique for at opsøge Henriks ukendte kæreste, som viser sig at være en ung kvinde med aids. Hun fører Louise ind i Henriks afrikanske verden, som er et fremmedartet helvede af fattigdom, korruption og sygdom. Henrik arbejdede blandt andet på en aidsklinik for et stort, multinationalt medicinalfirma. Var Henrik kommet på sporet af selskabets kyniske udnyttelse af smittede og syge afrikanere, og var det derfor, han måtte dø? Eller var han selv involveret i bedraget? Var det hele bare en ny, fantasifuld konspirationsteori? Jo dybere, Louise graver i Henriks liv, desto farligere bliver det for hende selv.Lydbogen er indlæst af Judith Rothenborg.