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The White Lioness
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.7374
EAN: 9781400031559
ISBN: 1400031559
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: May 13, 2003
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
Third in the Kurt Wallander series.The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough, the cops catch up with him. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, they realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex—and dangerous. The search for the truth behind the killing eventually uncovers an assassination plot, and Wallander soon finds himself in a tangle with both the secret police and a ruthless foreign agent. Combining compelling insights into the sinister side of modern life with a riveting tale of international intrigue, The White Lioness keeps you on the knife-edge of suspense.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Overly Long - "Underly" Good
This is well written but overly long and involved. It's a Swedish police procedural novel that morphs into an International espionage novel about a secret Afrikaner plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela. So, it gets long and involved with lots of characters & subplots. Even after halfway through the book, the author is still introducing new characters and subplots. The series character, Kurt Wallender behaves in an unprofessional, foolish and actually illegal manner in the course of the book & ... Read More
Rating: - Not a Wallander story we are used to, but not bad!
Detective Kurt Wallander in "The White Lioness" sets out to find the woman, an estate agent, who disappeared coming home from work. Little does he know that the search for her will get him entangled in the international plot, devised to assassinate Nelson Mandela.
The third volume of Henning Mankell's series of crime novels featuring Wallander is probably weaker than the first one, but definitely it is better than "the Dogs of Riga". I usually prefer the good police procedural or detective ... Read More
Rating: - Who's a Better Writer: the Author or the Translator
One of the things I look for when reading a translation, is the smoothness in which the characters move through the narrative parts of the novel. Laurie Thompson has done a superb job in this novel, especially because there are two diametrically dissimilar societies involved in the story; Sweden and Aparteid South Africa.
Mr. Mankell should be quite pleased with the way the book came out because the tension and subtlety of the story is there throughout the story. Unlike a lot of European Crime ... Read More
Rating:  - A nonstandard Wallender Mystery
Having already read the 4th Wallender book, 'The Man Who Smiled' ('Silkeridderen' or 'The Silk Rider, in Norwegian translation), I now know where Wallender's depression came from. It's developed in the present book. Wallender has character the opposite that of a psychopath, and it's why he rarely carries a pistol.
I though early on that this book is terribly boring. Half the time is spent in aparteid South Africa, where the plot originates and developes. After a while I realized that the description ... Read More
Rating:  - Good then bad then good
I liked this book from the start to somewhere around page 250 or 260. But I thought it faltered pretty badly for a hundred pages or so. Fellow police are shocked that a man just seconds from a gun battle for his life is in a frantic frame of mind. Really? A man he's chasing seems to, inexplicably, feel that it's important to get Wallander. Why? Reasons are purported but they seemed very false. It helped the story along but it was faintly ridiculous. There was a little too much sentimentality in stereotypically ... Read More
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