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Original Title: | Den vita lejoninnan |
ISBN: | 0099464691 (ISBN13: 9780099464693) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Kurt Wallander #3, Wallander #4 |
Characters: | Kurt Wallander, Louise Ã…kerblom, Anatoli Konovalenko, Victor Mabasha, President de Klerk, Pastor Tureson, Robert Ã…kerblom, Linda Wallander, Vladimir Rykoff |
Setting: | Sweden South Africa |
Henning Mankell
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 576 pages Rating: 3.84 | 16833 Users | 1070 Reviews

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Title | : | The White Lioness (Kurt Wallander #3) |
Author | : | Henning Mankell |
Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 576 pages |
Published | : | September 4th 2003 by Vintage (first published 1993) |
Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Thriller. Cultural. Sweden. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature |
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The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough, the cops catch up with him. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, they realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex—and dangerous.Combining compelling insights into the sinister side of modern life with a riveting tale of international intrigue, The White Lioness keeps you on the knife-edge of suspense.
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An enjoyable read. Writing about real historical figures is dangerous but Mankell does it well. Having a plot rest on incomprehensibly stupid mistakes made by various characters is dangerous, and that cant be done well. But maybe what I thought were stupid mistakes werent stupid or mistakes; maybe the incidents fit in the mindset of Sweden, not such a rough place as the world of American crime stories. Wondering about this adds a humane element I am glad I came to suspect. The characters,I hesitated a long time before reading the third Wallander story. That's mainly because I knew that this book would be much different than the first two since it is a lot more ambitious. It deals with Mandela... hence with world politics. Uuuughhh... is this really what I want to read in a proper noir/crime novel? Nah... I read the papers for that kinda stuff. The first two books had many flaws but they were also interesting in a certain way because they mainly focused on the characters and the
This, the third entry in Henning Mankell's series featuring Swedish Inspector Kurt Wallander, appeared in 1993, and is a very ambitious effort--in the end, perhaps overly so. The story starts simply enough with the murder of a real estate agent who finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time, but it quickly spins into a major international conspiracy involving a plot by die-hard South African whites to assassinate Nelson Mandela, shortly after he was released from prison.The plotters have

I approached The White Lioness tentatively, afraid that I wouldn't like it and that it could very well mark the end of my appreciation for the written Wallander.Faceless Killers was a somewhat uninspired though compelling murder mystery. It was straightforward, and exactly what one would expect from the story of a taciturn Swedish cop in quiet Ystad. Coupled with the BBC movies, it was more than enough to make me want to proceed in the series. Dogs of Riga, however, was something else entirely.
Good, but I wanted more of the Swedish stuff, less of the global espionage. My proper review is here: http://patricksherriff.com/2019/04/14...
Some of the best police procedural/mystery writing is coming out of the Scandinavian countries. Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, for example, also come from Sweden, and their work is consistently excellent. Not to mention there must ne some very good translators working on these books. Mankell, who wrote this in 1993 as apartheid was beginning to crumble, has little love for those white South Africans who wanted to retain the status quo. In this, one of his lengthier works, his protagonist, Chief
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