Now available for the first time in paperback from Vintage Canada, this international bestseller is the missing piece of the critically acclaimed Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander's beginnings.

The Pyramid is the prequel to the bestselling Kurt Wallander series, and reintroduces readers to a character they thought they knew everything about. Here, we see Wallander as a twenty-one-year-old patrolman, as a young father facing an unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, as a budding detective on the brink of middle age solving a case of poisoning, as an investigator solving the murder of a local photographer, and finally as a veteran detective discovering unexpected connections between a downed mystery plane and the assassination of a pair of spinster sisters. Watching this fascinating character come into his own and develop his signature methodical and instinctive work style, makes for riveting reading.

The Pyramid is vintage Mankell, and a must-have for his many fans.

 Back to top | e-mail or print this page

"To his legions of North American readers, Henning Mankell is the unrivalled master of Swedish crime fiction and one of the finest practitioners of the genre anywhere."
— Toronto Star

"A marvel of spare, purposeful prose and artful storytelling."
— St. Petersburg Times

"Superb. . . . Mankell has mastered his craft."
— Tampa Bay Tribune

"Sure to bring [Mankell's] fans stampeding back into the fold."
— The New York Times

 Back to top | e-mail or print this page

Visit Henning Mankell's website.

 Back to top | e-mail or print this page

Foreword
Wallander's First Case
The Man with the Mask
The Man on the Beach
The Death of the Photographer
The Pyramid

 Back to top | e-mail or print this page

Internationally bestselling novelist and playwright HENNING MANKELL has received the German Tolerance Prize and the U.K.'s Golden Dagger Award and has been nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize three times. His Kurt Wallander mysteries have been published in thirty-three countries and consistently top the bestseller lists in Europe. He divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he has worked as the director of Teatro Avenida since 1985.

 Back to top | e-mail or print this page