by Henning Mankell
So I read "Faceless Killers" back in 2016 and never got back to the Kurt Wallander series. I enjoyed the tv show starring Kenneth Branagh and always meant to try to give the series another go when I got a chance. I dithered between 3 and 4 stars and mostly that's because it seemed this collection ...
Klappentext “’Am Anfang war alles nur ein Nebel. Ein dickflüssiges Meer, in dem alles weiß und still war. Eine Landschaft des Todes. Er war nur einundzwanzig Jahre alt geworden. Ein junger Polizist, kaum erwachsen…’ Der erste Fall für den Polizeianwärter Kurt Wallander. Am Ende seiner Ermittlung...
"Wallander woke up shortly after six o'clock on the morning of the eleventh of December. At the same moment that he opened his eyes, his alarm clock went off. He turned it off and lay staring out into the dark. Stretched his arms and legs, spread his fingers and toes. That had become a habit, to fee...
Poor Wallander. He makes me feel better about my life. Mankell writes a good short story.
Listening this in and out mostly noticing it only as a background noise..... I don't think I'll touch another Wallander for some time. I've had my fill and would rather read something else.
As a huge fan of the Wallander series on TV, particularly the Swedish version, I decided I should read some Henning Mankell as he is such a massive seller. This is actually a series of short prequels that chart the life of Wallander up to the point the original books start when he emerged as a fully...