37. The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell

38. The Killing Room by Richard MontanariI'm writing these two up together because I ended up reading them at the same time and although both are compelling reading, they're incredibly different, and it was an interesting contrast ( Read more... )

71. Sidetracked by Henning MankellAnother book in the Wallander series. This was one of the first, if not the first, of the ones that Kenneth Branagh dramatised in English. I've also seen the Swedish TV adaptation ( Read more... )

42.  The Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell

The fourth Wallander book.  (I've read the third, The White Lioness, before).  I'm not intentionally reading them in order, but the library has been especially obliging - I'm just going with whatever's on the shelf when I'm there.

This one starts out a bit slow, with Wallander on long term sick leave after ( Read more... )

35. The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell

Set in 1991, The bodies of some Eastern European gangsters wash up on the shore in Ystad, a Latvian police offcer comes over to help with the investigation, and is murdered as soon as he gets back to Riga.  Wallander is sent over to assist.  As it's the dying days of the Soviet empire, it all goes a bit John ( Read more... )

22. Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

The first Wallander book, but the third that I've read.

I loved this a lot more than the other two[1]; whether because it's shorter and more tightly plotted, or because it's a different translator (I checked - the Wallander books have been translated by different people in random order at random dates), I'm not ( Read more... )

8. The White Lioness by Henning Mankel

Another one from the Wallander series about the adventures of a small-town Swedish detective. Although the style is very similar to Firewall, I liked this book a lot more. It's stretching credibility a bit that in both books I've read a crime in rural Sweden is tied into something much bigger and ( Read more... )

1. Firewall by Henning MankellI was really impressed by the recent Hollander stories on the TV, both the original Swedish and the English versions, so I promptly went to the library and grabbed a couple of the books ( Read more... )