Mankell, Henning  (1948-2015) <br/><br/>
The man from Beijing 
/ Henning Mankell 
 - New York  : Vintage Books  , 2010. 
 - 455 p.  ; 20 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Translated from the Swedish to English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780307472847 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Murder---Sweden----Fiction<br/>Wallander, Kurt (Fictitious character)---Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Sweden----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Detective and mystery stories---Fiction 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PT9876.23.A49  / K5613 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>MYS MAN