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Knopf
February 2010
On Sale: February 16, 2010
352 pages
ISBN: 0307271862
EAN: 9780307271860
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Fiction
The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries,
writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an
electrifying stand-alone global thriller. January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen
people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon
found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked:
Her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims, and
Birgitta soon learns that an Andrén family in Nevada has
also been murdered. She then discovers the
nineteenth-century diary of an Andrén ancestor—a gang master
on the American transcontinental railway—that describes
brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers. The police insist
that only a lunatic could have committed the Hesjövallen
murders, but Birgitta is determined to uncover what she now
suspects is a more complicated truth. The investigation leads to the highest echelons of power in
present-day Beijing, and to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But the
narrative also takes us back 150 years into the depths of
the slave trade between China and the United States—a
history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer
to solving the Hesjövallen murders.
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