Saturday, July 02, 2011

Solid darkness stain’d

Before I even realized I’d read some 100 pages, the progress was slower eventually, but, Henning Mankell, always a pleasure and, shy of maybe one or two books, I probably have read all his Kurt Wallander novels. If Troubled Man, as feared, is the last Wallander book, it ended up in fucken style. The story moves fast and you are bloody hooked - and even if the main Kurt Wallander’s apathy and pathos sometimes were too much to bear, close to some sort of comical misery, he still is one of my favourite fictional detectives.

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