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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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A Kurt Wallander Mystery

READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

Faceless Killers

Faceless Killers

by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 369 PAGES

When a elderly couple is murdered in the Swedish countryside outside of Malmo, evidence points towards the immigrant community. Ystad Inspector Kurt Wallander must solve the murder before anti-immigrant tensions explode. First in the blockbuster series. (SWE66, $7.99)

The Dogs of Riga

The Dogs of Riga

by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

Swedish detective Kurt Wallander travels from Ystad to Latvia on the shadowy trail of a grisly murder in this second book, steeped in Baltic ambiance. (BLT24, $15.00)

The White Lioness

The White Lioness

by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

The murder of a Swedish housewife in tranquil southern Sweden is much more complicated and dangerous than it initially appears in this third novel, in which Wallander must grapple with both the secret police and a South African agent. (SWE67, $15.00)

The Man Who Smiled

The Man Who Smiled

by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 325 PAGES

In the fourth book, Kurt Wallander chases a killer targeting lawyers in Malmo, Sweden. The investigation leads the Ystad inspector to a prime suspect: a powerful corporate mogul whose smile masks the face of a killer. (SWE68, $15.00)

Sidetracked

Sidetracked

by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 432 PAGES

Wallander faces his greatest challenge yet in this fifth haunting novel, largest set in and around the detective's home base in Ystad. (SWE69, $15.00)

The Fifth Woman

The Fifth Woman

by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 608 PAGES

Inspector Kurt Wallander may have a murderous avenging angel on his hands in the sixth novel of the popular Swedish mystery series. (SWE70, $15.00)

One Step Behind

One Step Behind

by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

It's Midsummer's Eve in this seventh mystery and Inspector Kurt Wallander suspects that a series of gruesome murders around Ystad are connected. But how? (SWE71, $15.00)

Firewall

Firewall

by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 416 PAGES

This eighth mystery pits Wallander against a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. (SWE72, $14.95)

The Pyramid, The First Wallander Cases

The Pyramid, The First Wallander Cases

by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 392 PAGES

Mankell sheds light on Swedish police inspector Kurt Wallander's back-story in this collection of five short stories set at key moments in Wallander's life. (SWE73, $15.00)

The Troubled Man

The Troubled Man

by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

Last in the wildly popular series by Henning Mankell, now in paper. Brooding detective Kurt Wallander (star of The Dogs of Riga) may be in over his head investigating the disappearance of his daughter's father-in-law to be, a former Swedish naval officer, in this darkly atmospheric whodunit set in and around Stockholm. Though Kenneth Branagh stars in the award-winning BBC series (there's a new installment in the works), Wallander is as Swedish as they come, rather the antithesis of James Bond -- vulnerable, lonely, feeling his age. But a crack detective all the same. (SWE63, $15.00)

 

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