Before the Frost

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National Geographic Books, Feb 14, 2006 - Fiction - 384 pages
Sweden’s bestselling and award-winning author Henning Mankell joins Vintage Canada with the first Kurt and Linda Wallander Mystery.

Linda Wallander is bored. Having just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. In the meantime, she is living with her father, and like fathers and daughters everywhere, they are driving each other crazy. Nor will they be able to escape each other when she moves out. Her father is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a veteran of the Ystad police force, whom she will have to work alongside. Linda’s boredom doesn’t last long. Soon she is embroiled in the case of her childhood friend Anna, who has inexplicably disappeared. A few rookie mistakes result in life-threatening scenarios. And as the case her father is working on dovetails with her own, something far more calculated and dangerous than either could have imagined begins to emerge.

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About the author (2006)

Internationally acclaimed author Henning Mankell has written nine Kurt Wallander mysteries. The books have been published in thirty-three countries and consistently top the bestsellers lists in Europe, receiving major literary prizes (including the UK’s Golden Dagger for Sidetracked) and generating numerous international film and television adaptations. He has also published many other novels for children, teens and adults. In addition, he is one of Sweden’s most popular dramatists. Born in Sweden, he now divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique.

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