Opis: One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden
where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their
investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from
house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a crime unprecedented in Swedish
history.
When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she realises that she has a family
connection to one of the couples involved and decides to investigate. A nineteenth-century
diary and a red silk ribbon found in the forest nearby are the only clues.
What Birgitta eventually uncovers leads her into an international web of corruption and a
story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years, linking China and the USA
of the 1860s with modern-day Beijing, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and coming to a
shocking climax in London's Chinatown.
The Man from Beijing is both a gripping and perceptive political thriller and a compelling
detective story. It shows Henning Mankell at the height of his powers, handling a broad
historical canvas and pressing international issues with his exceptional gifts for insight and
chilling suspense.