The hand leads him to two long-buried corpses and to abandon thoughts of buying the house. Being Wallander, he finds a human hand sticking up out of the clay in the back garden. His colleague Martinson knows of just the place, a house belonging to a moribund in-law. Wallander, aging, wants to move to a home in the country and get a dog. It is a better ending to the famous detective series than The Troubled Man, which grafts Wallander's leavetaking from the Ystad police onto a somewhat contrived espionage plot. An Event in Autumn, though written almost a decade before Mankell's cancer was diagnosed, is a part of that writing.Īn Event in Autumn is the next-to-last of the Kurt Wallander chronicles in terms of story line, though it's the last to appear in English. I hadn't even known Mankell was ill, though his cancer was apparently widely publicized and he wrote quite a bit about facing death.
Sadly enough, it took Henning Mankell's death to move An Event in Autumn from the stack of crime novels below my bedside table to the top of the active pile above. Lection home authors titles dates links about
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