The White Lioness (Kurt Wallender Mystery)
Contributors: Laurie Thompson (Translator)
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Published: April 3, 2003
Language: eng; swe
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781860469602
Subjects: Crime & mystery; Mystery/Suspense
First sentence: Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, left the Savings Bank in Skurup shortly after 3.00 in the afternoon on Friday, April 24.
Description: "In peaceful southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation and no motive. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate." "As Inspector Wallander is introduced to this missing person's case, he has a gut feeling that the victim will never be found alive, but he has no conception of how far he will have to go in search of the killer and the origin of the crime." "In South Africa, Nelson Mandela has made his long walk to freedom, setting in train the country's painful journey towards the end of apartheid. Wallander and his associates find themselves caught up in a conspiracy involving renegade members of South Africa's secret service and a former KGB agent, all of them set upon halting Mandela's rise to power. Faced with an increasingly globalised world in which terrorism knows no frontiers, Wallander, working with colleagues in South Africa, must prevent a hideous crime that means to dam the tide of history."--BOOK JACKET.