The Man From Beijing
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3.7 • 27 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WALLANDER MYSTERIES
REVENGE CAN TAKE MORE THAN A LIFETIME
In a sleepy hamlet in north Sweden, the local police make a chilling discovery; nineteen people have been brutally slaughtered. It is a crime unprecedented in Sweden's history and the police are under incredible pressure to solve the killings.
When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved and decides to investigate. When the police make a hasty arrest it is left to her to investigate the source of a nineteenth century diary and red silk ribbon found near the crime scene. What she will uncover leads her into an international web of corruption and a story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years.
The Man from Beijing is a gripping political thriller and a compelling detective story from a writer at the height of his powers.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A massacre in the remote Swedish village of Hesj vallen propels this complex, if diffuse, stand-alone thriller from Mankell (The Pyramid). Judge Birgitta Roslin, whose mother grew up in the village, comes across diaries from the house of one of the 19 mostly elderly victims kept by Jan Andr n, an immigrant ancestor of Roslin's. The diaries cover Andr n's time as a foreman on the building of the transcontinental railroad in the United States. An extended flashback charts the journey of a railroad worker, San, who was kidnapped in China and shipped to America in 1863. After finding evidence linking a mysterious Chinese man to the Hesj vallen murders, Roslin travels to Beijing, suspecting that the motive for the horrific crime is rooted in the past. While each section, ranging in setting from the bleak frozen landscape of northern Sweden to modern-day China bursting onto the global playing field, compels, the parts don't add up to a fully satisfying whole. Author tour.
Customer Reviews
The Man from Beijing
I have read all the 'Wallander' books, it took some time to come to terms with there being no investigative police officer on the scene. However, what was at first a somewhat disjointed set of circumstances, came to a crashing crescendo at the end. I look forward to reading 'Italian Shoes.
Wandering Walter
Waste of time; Disappointing
Waste of money too. Ridiculous story, dull, disjointed. Guess I've been spoilt by the previous brilliant Wallander stories :(