The white lioness
Subtitle: a mystery
By: Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson.
Contributors: Thompson, Laurie, 1938-
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by Norton
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: Police -- Sweden -- Fiction; Apartheid -- Fiction; Sweden -- Fiction; South Africa -- Fiction
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.