The white Lioness
the white Lioness is a Detective novel of Henning Mankell published in 1993 in Sweden under the title Den vita lejoninnan , translated into French in 2004 and putting in scene the police inspector Kurt Wallander.
Synopsis
In 1992, Louise Åkerblom, real estate agent and young mother of family travel by her car to make a last visit before returning to it. It is mistaken in house and is cut down coldly by a man of a ball into full head.In same time, in South Africa, Victor Mabasha, black professional killer sees itself entrusting a very remunerative mission. The silent partners, of the Boer S extremists placed very high in the administration, project to make assassinate a personality at the top of the State.
In Scanie, the inspector Wallander finds the body of Louise at the bottom of a well. A few days later, an abandoned farm explodes not far from the place of macabre discovered. In the remains, the police officers find a cut black finger, the remainders of a sophisticated transmitter and a rare part of gun in Scandinavia.
Starting from these so heteroclite parts of puzzle, Wallander little by little will launch out on a track where it will cross the road of an ex-agent of the KGB and will démèlera wire of a plot opposing the actors of the fight to be able it in a country located at thousands of kilometers of the peaceful town of Ystad.
External bond
South Africa by Kurt Wallander