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The Kurt Wallander Mysteries: Book #8
Narrator
Dick Hill
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Translator
Ebba Segerberg
Length
16 hours 13 minutes
Language
English
A body is found at an ATM, the apparent victim of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime, showing no remorse whatsoever. Two open-and-shut cases.
At first, these incidents seem to have nothing in common. But as Wallander delves deeper into the mystery of why the girls murdered the cab driver, he begins to unravel a plot much more complicated than he initially suspected. The two cases become one and lead to a conspiracy that stretches far beyond the borders of Sweden.
Henning Mankell (1948–2015) was Sweden’s most-read author worldwide. His novels, which include the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries, have been translated into thirty-seven languages with more than thirty million copies in print worldwide. He has received the Crime Writers’ Association’s Macallan Gold Dagger and the German Tolerance Prize and has been a three-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Mystery/Thriller Book Prize.
Dick Hill, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, is one of the most awarded narrators in the business, having earned several Audie Awards and thirty-four AudioFile Earphones Awards. In addition to narrating, he has both acted in and written for the theater.
Ebba Segerberg is an academic and translator who is noted for her translations of Swedish literature. She is an adjunct lecturer in Swedish at Washington University in St. Louis and has contributed to The Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th Century Swedish Writers.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Dick Hill
ISBN:
9781483071565
Length:
16 hours 13 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:
December 30, 2008
Edition:
Unabridged
Reviews
“Well-paced…a thinking man's thriller.”
“Satisfying…[Mankell’s] Sweden—cold, isolated and brimming with disappointment—is as intriguing a landscape as Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles or Charles Willeford’s Miami.”
“Wonderful! Police procedural with personal texture.”
“Mankell proves once again that spending time with a glum police inspector in chilly Sweden can be quite thrilling…Mankell’s ambitious endeavor to combine large themes with small-town murder is a notable success.”
“Mankell delivers a solid mystery with excellent buildup and dynamic characters, and Dick Hill’s delivery keeps the tension taut through the story. Hill’s gruff voice perfectly brings the downtrodden Wallander to life…Hill should also be commended for his smooth reading of Swedish names and places.”
“Resolute Wallander, lonely, unhappy, even at times desperate, is as magnetic as ever.”
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