This final volume from Mankell—the Swedish dramatist, theater director, and creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander novels (and many other books)—includes 67 short essays written in the last two ...

CANNES — Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell, who was a leading figure in the wave of “Nordic Noir” fiction and whose books sold more than 40 million copies, died in Goteborg, Sweden, on Monday at ...

It’s not easy for an author to catch on across borders, but Swedish crime novelist Henning Mankell did it, all on the strength of a single character. Although Mankell wrote novels and plays about many ...

Henning Mankell, the internationally renowned Swedish crime writer whose books about the gloomy, soul-searching police inspector Kurt Wallander enticed readers around the world, died early Monday, his ...

The Swedish writer Henning Mankell's new novel, The Troubled Man, is another installment of his long-running series about Kurt Wallander, a police detective who works in the southernmost part of ...

Want to read something cold and dark on a hot summer day? We’ve got recommendations. By Tina Jordan and Marilyn Stasio Tales of Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch and Lee Child’s Jack Reacher; Henning ...

Henning Mankell stands on the patio of his house, hands in his pockets, enjoying the view. The writer lives on a hillside village about 40 minutes' drive south of Gothenburg. The view across the sea ...

Faceless Killers, originally published in Swedish in 1991 and translated to English by Steven T. Murray in 1997, is a dark ...

Henning Mankell, the internationally renowned Swedish crime writer whose books about the gloomy, soul-searching police inspector Kurt Wallander enticed readers around the world, died early Monday. He ...

Henning Mankell is best known for his crime writing, especially his novels about the world weary Swedish detective, Kurt Wallander. Henning Mankell talks to a Congolese refugee during his recent visit ...

Henning Mankell, trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Knopf, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-307-96122-8 Africa features prominently in the work of Mankell (The Shadow Girls), both in his acclaimed ...