By Henning Mankell
The acclaimed writer of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing on the top of his powers, now supplies us an electrifying stand-alone worldwide thriller.
January 2006. within the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen humans were massacred. the single clue is a crimson ribbon came across on the scene.
Judge Birgitta Roslin has specific cause to be stunned: Her grandparents, the Andréns, are one of the sufferers, and Birgitta quickly learns that an Andrén family members in Nevada has additionally been murdered. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andrén ancestor—a gang grasp at the American transcontinental railway—that describes brutal therapy of chinese language slave staff. The police insist that just a lunatic may have devoted the Hesjövallen murders, yet Birgitta is decided to discover what she now suspects is a extra complex truth.
The research results in the top echelons of energy in present-day Beijing, and to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. however the narrative additionally takes us again one hundred fifty years into the depths of the slave alternate among China and the United States—a heritage that may ensnare Birgitta as she attracts ever toward fixing the Hesjövallen murders.
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