The Return of the Dancing Master

Product Description *Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award*[Read by Grover Gardner] 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. Review ''Absorbing, chilling and dripping with evil atmosphere.'' --The Times ''Mankell is the master of the slow burn, and The Return of the Dancing Master makes us crave more of his misty, haunted atmosphere.'' --Independent ''A worthy successor to the Wallander whodunnits.'' --Sunday Telegraph ''The new cast is introduced with customary brilliance, and the political edge suggests a fine new direction from this immense talent Scotland on Sunday Compelling...there's no one better at the genre... His characters are his greatest invention.'' --San Francisco Chronicle''Mankell weaves a mournful spell through all his mysteries by adopting a calm, dispassionate tone that artfully underlines an abiding humanism for psychic as well as physical suffering…Sends a shiver down the spine.'' --Boston Globe ''Violence strikes with quick and shocking ferocity . . . the story has a density that demands - and rewards - intellectual movement.'' --New York Times Book Review ''It's time to admit that the cutting edge of mystery writing has shifted overseas . . . The Return of the Dancing Master gives homicide a moody elegance.'' --Time''Irrestible...[Mankell] is a master at constructing gripping, intricately plotted police procedurals with a strong dose of social commentary . . . The appeal . . . [is] the sheer brutal imaginativeness of the crimes.'' --Business Week ''Delightfully morbid . . . Steering between literature and suspense, [Mankell's] measured prose recalls those gloomy precisionists Peter Handke and Patricia Highsmith.'' --Guardian ''As always, Mankell tells somber, deeply pessimistic stories about widespread hatred lurking below the multicultural surface, but at the same time, he never fails to find a rich vein of humanity deep within the perpetually furrowed brows of his troubled cops.'' --Booklist ''Henning Mankell is by far the best writer of police mysteries today. He is in the great tradition of those whose work transcend their chosen genre to become thrilling and moral literature.'' --Michael Ondaatje ''As full and rich as any American police procedural of the last twenty years . . . You'll shiver with the cold of a Scandinavian winter.'' --Plain Dealer ''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 . . . (audiobook narrator) Gardner is extremely affecting without becoming melodramatic, especially as Lindman ponders his own mortality . . . Gardner's performance transcends the dreary, sunless Swedish landscape, bringing just the right tone to Mankell's gritty police procedural.'' --AudioFile About the Author HENNING MANKELL has become a worldwide phenomenon with his crime writing, gripping thrillers and atmospheric novels set in Africa. His prizewinning and critically acclaimed Inspector Wallander Mysteries are currently dominating bestseller lists all over the globe. His books have been translated into over forty languages and made into numerous international film and television adaptations: most recently the BAFTA-award-winning BBC television series Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh. Mankell devotes much of his free time to working with Aids charities in Africa, whe