Mankell, Henning, Before the Frost (A Kurt and Linda Wallander Novel) translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2004, 2006).
Mankell, Henning, The Dogs of Riga (A Kurt Wallander Mystery) translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2001, 2004).
Mankell, Henning, Faceless Killers (A Kurt Wallander Mystery) translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1997, 2003).
Mankell, Henning, The Fifth Woman (A Kurt Wallander Mystery) translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2000, 2004).
Mankell, Henning, Firewall (A Kurt Wallander Mystery) translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2002, 2003).
Mankell, Henning, The Man Who Smiled (A Kurt Wallander Mystery) translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2005, 2007) ("Golden days, he thought, bitterly, and I was stupid enough to believe in it. A lawyer's vision of the world should not be influenced by the illusion of a paradise to come, not here on earth at least." Id. at 3.).
Mankell, Henning, One Step Behind (A Kurt Wallander Mystery) translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2002, 2003).
Mankell, Henning, The Pyramid (The First Wallander Cases) translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg with Laurie Thompson (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2009) (From the "Forward": "It was only after I had written the eighth and final installment in the series about Kurt Wallander that I thought of the subtitle I had always sought but never found. When everything, or at least most of it, was over I understood that the subtitle naturally had to be 'Novels about the Swedish Anxiety'." "But of course I arrived too late at this insight. And this despite the fact that the books have always been variations on a single theme: "What is happening to the Swedish welfare state in the 1990s? How will democracy survive if the foundation of the welfare state is no longer intact? Is the price of Swedish democracy today too high and no longer worth paying?'" Id. at 1. Good questions for Americans to ask in these waning days of American democracy, where being anti-government, anti-centrist, anti-anyone-who-is-not-just-like-me, etc., is the political philosophy of the street. "'Perhaps the explanation is quite different,' Rydberg suggested. 'Perhaps there are people in today's society that feel so powerless they no longer partake in what we call democratic society. Instead they devote themselves to rites. If this is the case, our nation is in trouble'." "'I hadn't considered that possibility,' Wallander said. 'But you could be right. And in that case I agree with you. Then the foundation has really started to crack'." Id. at 238.)
Mankell, Henning, The Return of the Dancing Master translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2003, 2005).
Mankell, Henning, Sidetracked (A Kurt Wallander Mystery) translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1999, 2003) ("Off in the distance he heard a rooster crow. Ramirez's rooster. It was always the first in the village to crow, before dawn. That rooster was like an impatient person. Like someone who lived in the city, someone who always seemed to have too much to do, but never did anything other than attend to his own haste." Id. at 3.).
Mankell, Henning, The White Lioness (A Kurt Wallander Mystery) translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1998, 2003).
Sides, Hampton, Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. And the International Hunt for His Assassin (New York: Doubleday, 2010) ("[James Earl] Ray, above all, was a man who loved the chase, and who seemed almost subconsciously to want to get caught in order to break free again and thus initiate another chase. There was a bumbling picaresque quality to many of his escapades; in one of his heists, he fell out of his own swerving getaway car because he forgot to pull the door shut. A high-school dropout, Ray was discharged from the Army for 'ineptness and lack of adaptability for military service.' Most of his crimes--burglary, forgery, armed robbery--ranged from the petty to the merely pathetic. His criminal career was marked by moments of rash stupidity, yet Ray was not stupid, and he had a reputation in prison as a keen reader and a patient plotter with a perversely creative intelligence, especially when it came to confounding any sort of authority. Anyone who could break from a maximum-security prison and stay on the lam for more than a year possessed a certain kind of street cunning that was not to be dismissed." Id. at 327. See Bryan Burrough's review, "Death of a Dream," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 5/16/2010, noting that "This must be the first book on King that owes less to Talyor Branch than Robert Ludlum".).
