The White Lioness
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 440
- ISBN-13
- 9780099450092
- Type
- novel
About this book
The White Lioness precedes The Man Who Smiled in the Kurt Wallander series, published in 1993. Wallander's loneliness and physical decline are never softened as Mankell widens the series' geopolitical reach.
Key facts about The White Lioness
Henning Mankell wrote The White Lioness, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1993. The book has 440 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780099450092 to find the main one.
The White Lioness is book 3 of 11 in the Kurt Wallander series. The series has 11 published books. However, the series starts with Faceless Killers (1991).
Additionally, Henning Mankell writes Joel Gustafson and Sofia as separate series. Those series sit on our young adult and nordic noir shelves. Meanwhile, After the Fire is the latest published Henning Mankell book on file, from 2015.
About Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell was a Swedish author widely credited as one of the founding figures of the Scandinavian noir crime wave that reshaped international crime fiction from the 1990s onward. See every Henning Mankell book in order.
Its place in Kurt Wallander
The White Lioness is book 3 in the Kurt Wallander series. It follows The Dogs of Riga. It is followed by The Man Who Smiled. See the full Kurt Wallander reading order.
Kurt Wallander is a middle-aged detective in the small Swedish town of Ystad, and Henning Mankell built him, deliberately, as the anti-hero of the genre he helped invent: overweight, diabetic, divorced, depressive, and quietly appalled by the racism and social fracture he sees creeping into a Sweden he no longer fully recognises. Mankell used each investigation -- into organised crime, far-right violence, trafficking, political conspiracy -- as a lens on late-20th-century Swedish anxiety about immigration, the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780099450092