The man from Beijing
Mankell, Henning (1948-2015)
The man from Beijing / Henning Mankell - New York : Vintage Books , 2010. - 455 p. ; 20 cm.
In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrén family in Nevada has also been murdered. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andrén ancestor - a gang master on the American transcontinental railway - that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the Hesjövallen murders, but Birgitta is determined to uncover what she now suspects is a more complicated truth. The investigation leads to the highest echelons of power in present-day Beijing, and to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But the narrative also takes us back 150 years into the depths of the slave trade between China and the United States - a history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer to solving the Hesjövallen murders.
Translated from the Swedish to English
9780307472847
Murder---Sweden----Fiction
Wallander, Kurt (Fictitious character)---Fiction
Sweden----Fiction
Detective and mystery stories---Fiction
PT9876.23.A49 / K5613 2010
MYS MAN
The man from Beijing / Henning Mankell - New York : Vintage Books , 2010. - 455 p. ; 20 cm.
In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrén family in Nevada has also been murdered. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andrén ancestor - a gang master on the American transcontinental railway - that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the Hesjövallen murders, but Birgitta is determined to uncover what she now suspects is a more complicated truth. The investigation leads to the highest echelons of power in present-day Beijing, and to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But the narrative also takes us back 150 years into the depths of the slave trade between China and the United States - a history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer to solving the Hesjövallen murders.
Translated from the Swedish to English
9780307472847
Murder---Sweden----Fiction
Wallander, Kurt (Fictitious character)---Fiction
Sweden----Fiction
Detective and mystery stories---Fiction
PT9876.23.A49 / K5613 2010
MYS MAN
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