num_pages: 500
description: Inspector Kurt Wallander returns this time to investigate a horrific crime in his Scandinavian homeland somehow linked to a troubled apartheid-era South Africa. When the tenacious sleuth's search for the truth behind the execution-style killing of a Swedish housewife uncovers a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela, Wallander finds himself in a tangle with the South African secret service and a ruthless ex-KGB agent.
language: English
title: The White Lioness: A Mystery
titlecomplete: The White Lioness: A Mystery (Kurt Wallander Mysteries)
characters: Linda Wallander, Vladimir Rykoff, Robert Åkerblom, Victor Mabasha, Anatoli Konovalenko, Louise Åkerblom, Pastor Tureson, Kurt Wallander, President de Klerk
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Sweden, Thriller, Scandinavian Literature, Nordic Noir, Swedish Literature, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective
ratings_count: 21685
places: Ystad, Sweden, South Africa
series: Wallander, Kurt Wallander
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Svenska Deckarakademins pris för bästa svenska kriminalroman
publisher: New Press, The