The last book in the Wallander series is again excellent

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	• Firewall Henning Mankell Vintage, 2003 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 25 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Good for a leisurely read

My first Mankell book was a good experience. Now I'll head for others that appeared earlier in the series. The details about small town Sweden were interesting, and the introspection of Wallander readable and pertinent to the story. The plot, unfortunately, is also believable in this day and age of computer geniuses (genii?). Who knows what will happen? The interaction between Wallander and his co-workers helped bring the plot along, though the final relationship between him and Martinsson was not worked out well. A question about the English version: does Mankell really write in such short, choppy sentences, or is this the work of the translator? Not exactly Hemingwayesque, but leans in that direction. And I never got the answer to why one of the victim's two fingers were cut off. Anybody know? But a good read for a long vacation time.

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Firewall and other Mankell mysteries

What can I say? I've read all the Mankell books I can get and find them superb and Wallender, the protagonist, a man I'd like to know. Thank you, Henning Mankell.

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Sweden?

If you like police detective novels that have a dose of realism in plot and setting, the obsessions of Mankell's Inspector Wallander provide a fine antidote to the usual run of serial/maniacals. The mystery is composed of subplots that come together slowly until they quicken as the end nears. What drives the plot is a larger-than-life, computer-enhanced doomsday clock, but Wallander's family in and outside the office give a strong sense of the man who makes it all come together. The brooding and well-realized town where the story takes place seems like the home you always wanted to run away from.

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too much re-hash

I love the Kurt Wallander mystery series. No, serioulsy, I LOVE the books.

But this book rehashed everything previous WAY too much. Also, there were just glib references to things that could have been real life changers for our protagonist (e.g., diabetes) that were never fleshed out. Then there's the whole aspect of KW becoming a grumpy old man.... but again, since these are largely procedural novels, showing the process would be good... And then the end didn't wrap things up the way Mankell usually does. I'm hoping the next one is as good as all the previous ones...

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The last book in the Wallander series is again excellent

The cases that Kurt Wallander has to solve are becoming more and more complicated: a dead man is found at an ATM and at the same time a taxidriver is molested by two teenage girls. What is the connection? At first glance nothing, until one of the girls escapes from prison and is found dead and the corpse of the ATM man disappears from the morgue and is found back at the location where he was originally found. The dead man is an IT-expert and Wallander, who hardly knows how to turn his computer on and off, hires a young hacker to find out what the IT-expert was doing. And meanwhile Internal Affairs threatens to start a case against Wallander because he hit a suspect, his colleague Martinson tries to take over his position and he gets a reaction on an ad that he has put in the paper to find a wife. In the end the cases are solved, but Wallander and his team can barely prevent a worldwide disaster.

A wonderful book, but it is understandable that after this book Mankell stooped writing about Wallander: Wallander is deadly tired and constantly wondering whether he can still do his job. Say goodbye to a hero...

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Seventh in the Kurt Wallander series.

A body is found at an ATM the apparent victim of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime showing no remorse whatsoever. Two open and shut cases. At first these two incidents seem to have nothing in common, but as Wallander delves deeper into the mystery of why the girls murdered the cab driver he begins to unravel a plot much more involved complicated than he initially suspected. The two cases become one and lead to conspiracy that stretches to encompass a world larger than the borders of Sweden.

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