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Henning Mankell

Kennedys Hjärna by Henning Mankell takes about 6 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 21 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2005. 346 pages, about 95,150 words.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 34 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 21 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 58 minutes

The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A fast paced international thriller - sure to delight fans starved of WallanderWhen archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe something more sinister took place.Henrik had kept many things back from her and she is shocked to learn he had contracted HIV. While looking through his bundles of papers, she discovers he was obsessed with the conspiracy theory that JFK's brain disappeared prior to the autopsy – along with the vital evidence regarding bullet exit wounds. The only lead is a letter and photograph from Henrik's girlfriend in Mozambique.Louise's quest to unravel the mystery surrounding her son's death takes her to Africa; a continent rife with disease, poverty and corruption. Struggling to cope with sickness and the oppressive heat, Louise sees fear in every face, even unexpectedly in the patients at the clinics set up by an American businessman. In Kennedy's Brain Mankell confirms his status as a master of suspense, and delivers a timely and riveting thriller which will have readers on the edge of their seats until the very end.

Subjects: Death, AIDS (Disease), Fiction, Patients, Archaeologists, Children

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