Kurt Wallander Series: The White Lioness (Series #3) (Paperback)

from KatherineGregg

I loved this third book in the Kurt Wallandar series and am looking forward to the next one. I like the contemporary/historical backdrops (release of Nelson Mandela, fall of the Berlin Wall, end of communism in Russia) that he weaves into his stories. Officer Kurt Wallander is alive and well with...

from literarytiger

This was a gripping and disturbing chapter in the Wallander series. The realities of South African apartheid were shocking and deeply disturbing, as were the attitudes of the perpetrators of the crime that Wallander has to try to solve in this, the third, of his cases. The initial murder of Louis...

from Lman

Beginning with the seemingly innocuous disappearance of a local woman the subsequent investigation by Kurt Wallander, a Swedish provincial police inspector, embroils the reader in an international conspiracy. The book alternates between events in the locale of the province of Skåne and the turmoi...

from lit_chick

"A criminal investigation seldom follows regular day-to-day rhythms. It has its own life, its own energy. The clocks of a criminal investigation distort time, sometimes standing still, sometimes racing forward. No-one can know in advance." (Ch 7) Louise Akerblom, a Swedish estate agent, leaves he...

from mldavis2

This was an interesting mystery involving several themes and a good deal of information related to South Africa and its political and racial climate. But the novel stands on it own as one of the fine examples of Mankell's writing. Number three in the series and 435 pages, it is a must read for Ma...