Before the Frost: 9 (Kurt Wallander Series) - Tapa blanda

"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

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.