FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WALLANDER MYSTERIES. REVENGE CAN TAKE MORE THAN A LIFETIME. In a sleepy hamlet in north Sweden the local police make a chilling discovery; nineteen people have been brutally slaughtered. It is a crime unprecedented in Swedens history & the police are under incredible pressure to solve the killings. When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved & decides to investigate. When the police make a hasty arrest it is left to her to investigate the source of a nineteenth century diary & red silk ribbon found near the crime scene. What she will uncover leads her into an international web of corruption & a story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years. The Man from Beijing is a gripping political thriller & a compelling detective story from a writer at the height of his powers.