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The Man Who Smiled: Kurt Wallander [Kindle Edition]

Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson
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From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. First published in Sweden in 1994, Mankell's terrific fourth Kurt Wallender mystery opens with the kind of startling image typical of this internationally bestselling series (Firewall, etc.): a lawyer, driving home through the fog, stops after he sees "a human-sized effigy" propped on a chair in the middle of a deserted highway. Gustaf Torstensson gets out of the car to investigate, is hit from behind and was "dead before his body hit the damp asphalt." The police accept the assailant's claim that it was an accident, but when Torstensson's son, Sten, is shot dead just two weeks later, the brooding Wallender, who's on sick leave and vowing to retire from the Ystad police force, decides to pursue the killer and resume his career. The chief suspect—a powerful, globe-trotting Swedish businessman who's the smiling man of the title—leads Wallender on an exquisitely plotted search for motive and evidence. Dark and moody, this is crime fiction of the highest order. (Sept.)
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From Booklist

Swedish crime writer Mankell has taken U.S. publishing by storm over the last decade, launching a genre-altering invasion of his fellow Scandinavian mystery authors and (with other Europeans such as John Harvey and Andrea Camilleri) reinterpreting the notion of the hard-boiled hero. No longer the strong, silent, stand-up guy of American fiction, the new European hero, led by Mankell's Kurt Wallander, faces the horrors of the modern world with a sagging spirit, nearly overwhelmed. Lately, though, Mankell has rested Wallander, focusing instead on other cops in and around Ystad, Sweden, including Wallander's daughter, Linda, the star of Before the Frost (2005). Now the series returns to Wallander but backtracks in time. The Man Who Smiled, written in 1994, was the fourth in the series but is only now appearing in the U.S. It finds Wallander on the verge of quitting the Ystad police force; then a friend who had asked for his help is killed, and the would-be retiree is compelled to go back to work. The case that unfolds, involving a the head of a multinational corporation who traffics in the selling of human organs, opens yet another window on the unimaginable horrors of modern life, but this time Wallander responds with new resolve. Devotees of the series will be thrilled to pick up this missing chapter in the ongoing saga, but it is a bit disconcerting to keep the chronology straight. Still, any new Wallander novel--in whatever order--constitutes a major event in crime fiction. Bill Ott
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Produktinformation

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • Dateigröße: 638 KB
  • Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe: 448 Seiten
  • Verlag: Vintage Digital (4. September 2008)
  • Verkauf durch: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0099571722
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099571728
  • ASIN: B0031RS45M
  • Text-to-Speech (Vorlesemodus): Aktiviert
  • X-Ray: Nicht aktiviert
  • Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen  Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (4 Kundenrezensionen)
  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: #28.858 Bezahlt in Kindle-Shop (Siehe Top 100 Bezahlt in Kindle-Shop)

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5.0 von 5 Sternen The Man Who Smiled 5. März 2006
Von sarah
Format:Taschenbuch|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
Magical Mankell, this author of intriguing mysteries has, yet again, written a book that one cannot stop reading once one has started. At the beginning of the book Mankells main character, Wallander, is going trough an emotional crisis and has decided to resign from the police force. He returns because a friend is murdered after asking Wallander to look into his father’s death. The evolving story has all the addictive fascination of Mankells previous books.

Written in style that is almost lyrical, one could possibly read the book for the pleasure of the prose alone. Sensuous, while reading I could almost feel the dull, chilly wet Swedish weather. I needed little imagination to sense the muddy fields or cold beaches.

It is incredible, I think that I have read all the Inspector Wallander mysteries, but I have never come across two with the same plot. Many successful writers seem to find a theme that works and repeat it so that successive books become predictable. Not so Mankell, each book is an enjoyably unique.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Great Mankell and nice to read! 11. März 2013
Von Spike
Format:Kindle Edition|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
Great Story and very binding ... if you know what I mean. Gave me a lot of joy during reading.
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Format:Kindle Edition
Inspector Kurt Wallander returns for the fifth time in Henning Mankell's police procedural series set in Ystad, Sweden. In the first chapter, Gustaf Torstensson, a lawyer, is driving home after a meeting with his client. He sees a chair in the middle of the road and in the chair is a body. He can't tell if it's a real person or a dummy, so he stops to take a look. Exiting his car, he is hit on the back of the head and dies instantly.

Meanwhile, Wallander is on sick leave for depression because he was forced to kill a man in his previous case. Convinced that his career is over, he drowns his misery in drink and plans to resign. Wallander is visited by his friend, Sten Torstensson, who is Gustaf's son. Sten explains that the police think that his father's death resulted from an auto accident, but he himself believes that his father was murdered. Wallander doesn't see any evidence that points to murder, but when Sten is found shot to death a few days later, he gives up his retirement plans and returns to the Ystad police station to take over the investigation of Sten and Gustaf's deaths.

Suspicion centers on Alfred Harderberg, a powerful Swedish industrialist who employed Gustaf as his lawyer. The pace is slow as Wallander attempts to find evidence that will tie Harderberg to the murders. Along the way, there are a few other attempted murders that keep the story moving, but for which there are no rational motives. The ending is a little disappointing, with Wallander putting himself in a position that would never happen to a competent police officer. Although it's not as good as the previous books of the series, the writing and the Swedish noir atmosphere will still keep you turning the pages.
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