The Man from Beijing (Hardcover)

from maneekuhi

The book starts as crime fiction with one of the most intriguing, violent, and emotional crime scenes I've ever read - someplace in the cold, gloomy forests of a January Sweden. It quickly shifts to a micro-history of the construction of the first US transcontinental rail system with a special fo...

from cameling

A mass murderer has struck a little village, killing 19 people from 3 families in one night. The only people in the village not killed are a couple and an elderly woman who don't share the surnames of the murdered families. As the police look long and hard for clues, Judge Birgitta Roslin, is sho...

from countrylife

The man from Beijing wanted revenge on behalf of his ancestors. A relative of the victims gradually puts the pieces together. Having read Mr. Mankell's "Kurt Wallander" series, where his detectives systematically get the bad guys, I found these policemen to be written quite differently. (hmm...) ...

from bcquinnsmom

The opening scenes of this book are positively chilling, when at first a hungry wolf, away from its pack, is searching for food around the tiny village of Hesjövallen and chances upon a human leg. Then later, a researcher looking into the phenomenon of small towns and villages that are simply dyi...

from nbmars

This book has one of the best beginnings of a suspense/mystery that I've read in a long time. But the second half of the book left me in major zoning out mode. The story begins in 2006 in the remote Swedish village of Hesjövallen. Nineteen residents have been brutally massacred, and there is no c...