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The Man from Beijing (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
The Man from Beijing - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson (Translator), Rosalyn Landor (Narrator) January 2006: In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked. Her late mother's foster parents, the Andrens, are among the victims. Birgitta soon learns that an Andren fami... more »ly in Nevada has also been murdered. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andren ancestor--a gang master on the American transcontinental railway--that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the Hesjovallen murders, but Birgitta is determined to uncover what she now suspects is a more complicated truth.
Read by Rosalyn Landor, unabridged.
12 CDs, 15 hrs., 25 mins.
The investigation leads to the highest echelons of power in present-day Beijing, and to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The narrative also takes us back 150 years into the depths of the slave trade between China and the United States--a history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer to solving the Hesjovallen murders.