The Return of the Dancing Master
“The characters drawn by Henning Mankell are so real you can hear them breathe…Gardner’s performance transcends the dreary, sunless Swedish landscape, bringing just the right tone to Mankell’s gritty police procedural. Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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Winner of the Gumshoe Award for Best European Crime Novel
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller
When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snow, as if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young police officer recently diagnosed with mouth cancer, decides to investigate the murder of his former colleague but is soon enmeshed in a mystifying case with no witnesses and no apparent motives. Terrified of the disease that could take his life, Lindman becomes more and more reckless as he unearths the chilling links between Molin’s death and an underground neo-Nazi network that runs further and deeper than he could ever have imagined.
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