The Return of the Dancing Master
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Henning Mankell. (2008). The Return of the Dancing Master. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Henning Mankell. 2008. The Return of the Dancing Master. Blackstone Publishing.

Henning Mankell, The Return of the Dancing Master. Blackstone Publishing, 2008.

Henning Mankell. The Return of the Dancing Master. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2008.

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   • bioText: Henning Mankell is the prizewinning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, which were adapted into a PBS television series starring Kenneth Branagh. His novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold thirty million copies worldwide. He is the first winner of the Ripper Award (the new European Crime Fiction Star Award) and has also received the Glass Key and Golden Dagger awards. He divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique.
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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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   • content: "Violence strikes with quick and shocking ferocity in The Return of the Dancing Master...With its expansive time frame and meticulous procedural details, the story has a density that demands—and rewards—intellectual movement."
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   • content: The characters drawn by Henning Mankell are so real you can hear them breathe. They have quirks and foibles just like the rest of us. In a departure from his Inspector Wallander series, Mankell introduces Stefan Lindman, a young police officer who learns he has cancer. Although overwhelmed by the diagnosis, Lindman decides to investigate the torture-murder of a former colleague in north-central Sweden. Grover Gardner is unemotional and straightforward as he narrates Mankell's terse descriptions and painstakingly precise details. Gardner is extremely affecting without becoming melodramatic, especially as Lindman ponders his own mortality. As layers of the mystery fall away, ties to past and current Nazism are revealed. Gardner's performance transcends the dreary, sunless Swedish landscape, bringing just the right tone to Mankell's gritty police procedural. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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     March 1, 2004
     Mankell, known in this country for his Kurt Wallander police procedurals (Faceless Killers
     ; The Dogs of Riga
     ), sets this intricate, stand-alone tale of murder and intrigue in the vast pine forests of north-central Sweden. Stefan Lindman, a 37-year-old policeman in the city of Boras, sees his life, both professional and personal, as absolutely ordinary. Then he discovers a strange lump on his tongue; it's cancer, and his life changes dramatically. At the doctor's office he picks up a discarded newspaper and reads that former colleague Herbert Molin has been murdered in the northern forests. Because Lindman needs to take his mind off his upcoming cancer treatment, he decides to investigate Molin's death. As the details of the crime come to light, Lindman realizes he never knew the real Molin. The plot involves the secret world of Nazis, both past and present. The prose can be cold and spare, at least in translation: "There was a smell of paint in the house. All the lights were on. Lindman had to bow his head when he entered through the door." The unrelenting Lindman turns out to be an innovative investigator, though those seeking fast-paced action rather than meticulous introspection will be disappointed. Secrets are slowly and methodically teased from the evidence, and by the satisfying end readers with a taste for the unusual will find Lindman, and the mystery he solves, not in the least bit ordinary. (Mar.)
     
     Forecast
     :While Mankell's books are big sellers all over the world, Americans seem to have a problem with the austere qualities of his prose and his heroes, and the rather bleak atmosphere that pervades much of his work. Those qualities, plus the hero's depression over his cancer, are much in evidence here and will likely keep numbers down.

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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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