Hopefully not the last Wallander mystery
This is the first book published by Henning Mankell that I have read and it is my wish to read the rest of his publications as well.
Author: Henning Mankell
Book: An Event in Autumn
Review made possible by: Random House
Reviewed by: Anna Robertson
Missing the previous novels on the famous Swedish detective, Kurt Wallender, is something I regret.
The story reads Wallender, closing in on retirement, is thinking about buying a house in the country.
Looking at a country house recommended to him, he literally stumbles on a human hand reaching out of the garden. This discovery leads to evidence of a murder committed sometime in the 20th century.
A textbook cold case Wallender is committed to solving.
The 118-page book ended too soon, but I enjoyed reading the essay at the end where Mankell described his creation of and the flow of Wallander over the years.
The author announced in the Afterword “there will be no more stories about Kurt Wallender” which is kind of disappointing as I started to enjoy Wallender.
But for years he has been saying he’d written the very last Swedish detective tale and now, another one has turned up.
Let’s hope another might pop up soon.
