Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries (1999) Henning Mankell translated by Ebba Segerberg and Laurie Thompson These are four Wallander stories: Wallander’s First Case, The Man with the Mask, The Man on the Beach, The Death of the Photographer. Wallander’s First Case, set in June 1969 finds Wallander just starting out as a police […]

The Troubled Man (2009/2011) Henning Mankell translated by Laurie Thompson I’ve been in a mood lately where I don’t know what I want to read. I have several new releases I have been waiting for, but they just don’t appeal to me for some unknown reason. So I randomly chose The Troubled Man because I […]

The Fifth Woman (1996/2000) Henning Mankell translated by Steven T. Murray This is the first Kurt Wallander I’ve read, and I wonder how I’ve gone so long without reading him before. This is almost the definition of police procedural, and what we see is something that looks like what we’d actually see in a police […]