The Return of the Dancing Master is a 2000 novel by Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 crime writer Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell is a Swedish crime writer, children's author, leftist activist and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most famous creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.-Life and career:...

. It was translated into English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 in 2003 by Laurie Thompson

Laurie Thompson

Laurie Thompson is a British academic and translator, born in York, England, and lived in northern Sweden for a few years, noted for his translations of Swedish literature into English...

, and won the 2005 Gumshoe Award for Best European Crime Novel, presented by Mystery Ink.

The central character of the book is Stefan Lindman, a young police officer with cancer, who investigates the murder of a retired officer. The plot explores the relationship between the German Nazi movement and the Neo-Nazis in modern Sweden.

A television adaptation was produced in 2004 starring Swedish actor Jonas Karlsson

Jonas Karlsson

Sven Bert Jonas Karlsson is an Swedish actor and author.Karlsson was born in Södertälje. He won a Guldbagge-Award for Best Actor in 2004 for the movie Details. He published his first book, a collection of short stories, in 2007....

as Lindman.