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Loading... Mannen som log (original 1994; edition 2006)by Henning Mankell
Work detailsThe Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell (1994)
Finished it in a few days. And I rationed myself with two chapters a day until last night when I finished the last 8 chapters. The mentor student relationship that Wallander starts with Ann Britt is one of the highlights of this novel. The whole evil financier who doesn't have a conscience got old by the end of the book. But Wallander got his man in the end. The mystery plot was more predictable in this one. (  ) writerlibrarian | Apr 4, 2013 |  Didn't care much for this installment in the series. The story was mediocre. The antagonist was ridiculous; more suited for a James Bond film. I really hope the next one is better. (  ) pidgeon92 | Apr 1, 2013 | For those that know my reading tastes a bit, it won't come as a surprise, that I enjoyed this book from the Wallander series very much. A book that I didn't put down, couldn't let go, in which the author took me with him on the hunt for the mastermind behind a series of murders. Like I was standing next to Wallander, he let me be distracted by a maze of information, detours, attempted murders and with all that I wasn't bored for a moment. (  ) BoekenTrol71 | Mar 31, 2013 | Un roman policier qui se laisse lire. Il n'y a rien d'extraordinaire à en attendre, rien qui ne le différencie d'un autre policier pas mal. ( ) JohnMaus | Mar 24, 2013 | Another good thriller. ( ) wbwilburn5 | Sep 26, 2012 |
 When Henning Mankell, the most famous Swedish writer since Strindberg, published the first Kurt Wallander mystery 14 years ago, he could not have imagined how successful they would be. In Sweden the series triumphed overnight; worldwide it has sold in excess of 20 million copies. British readers were slow to catch up.The Man Who Smiled is the fourth Kurt Wallander book, originally published in Sweden in 1994. It opens with a road accident in thick fog in which a solicitor crashes his car and dies.Questions of responsibility and morality, of justice and democracy are explicitly raised, which is unusual in detective fiction.Wallander, a sternly pensive slogger who eats junk food, is one of the most credible creations in contemporary crime fiction, and The Man Who Smiled is vintage Nordic storytelling.
No descriptions found. "The Man Who Smiled begins with Wallander deep in a personal and professional crisis after killing a man in the line of duty; eventually, he vows to quit the Ystad police force for good. Just then, however, a friend who had asked Wallander to look into the death of his father winds up dead himself, shot three times. Ann-Britt H?glund, the department?s first female detective, proves to be his best ally as he tries to pierce the smiling fa?ade of his prime suspect, a powerful multinational business tycoon. But just as he comes close to uncovering the truth, the same shadowy threats responsible for the murders close in on Wallander himself" -- publisher website (December 2006).… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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