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Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010.
Description: 365 p. ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st North American ed.
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ISBN: 9780307271860 (alk. paper)
System Availability: 1
Current Holds: 0
Summary: A masscre in the remote Swedish village of Hesjovallen propels this complex, if diffuse, stand-alone thriller from Mankell. Judge Birgitta Roslin, whose mother grew up in the village, comes across diaries from the house of one of the 19 victims kept by Jan Andren, an immigrant ancestor of Roslin's The diaries cover Andren's time as a foreman on the building of the transcontinental railroad in the United States. An extended flashback charts the journey of a railroad worker, San, who was kidnapped in China and shipped to America in 1863. After finding evidence linking a mysterious Chinese man to the Hesjovallen murders, Roslin travels to Beijing, suspecting that the motive for the horrific crime is rooted in the past.
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