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In this 8th book in the 'Kurt Wallander' series, the Swedish detective is dealing with personal problems while investigating two suspicious deaths. The book can be read as a standalone.***** Inspector Kurt Wallender and his detectives are looking into two incidents: the brutal murder of a cab driver by two teenage girls, Sonya Hokberg and Eva Persson; and the death, seemingly from a heart attack, of computer expert Tynnes Falk near an ATM machine. Events escalate when Sonya escapes police custod...
This book made me feel sick to my stomach. Not because it was too gory or because what was written disagreed with me in a philosophical way, but because I have grown to care about Kurt Wallander over the eight books I've read -- maybe even seeing a bit of myself in him -- and it's in this book that he is most under siege, and that feeling of being under attack was the feeling that made me feel ill. His protege, Martinsson, the man he trained in the way his mentor Ryberg trained him, the man he k...
Satisfying police procedural featuring detective Kurt Wallander in rural Sweden. This is the 8th in a series of 11 and my first experience with the author. A case of two teen aged girls who brutally murder a cab driver and confess with no remorse that it was simply for money leads Wallender to look closer. Another case of a computer consultant dying of apparent natural causes at a cash machine provides an early hint that he was planning something socially disruptive. From this slow start, Wallen...
Henning Mankell has created one of the most authentic Nordic Noir characters in Kurt Wallander. As a similar aged male, albeit in a very different line of work, i identify with him in so many ways... getting older, times changing, kids growing up, ageing parents, loneliness, workplace changes, and just general grumpiness and disgruntlement at times and low mood that doesn’t really have clear origin. Mankell has written Wallander in such a way that I get a sense of walking alongside him, hearing
There is no doubt that the Scandinavian crime novels I have read thus far fail to disappoint. After reading Stieg Larsson and now my first Henning Mankell, either the Swed's are really creative in creating some really messed up situations or Sweden is a pretty messed up place to live.This crime is relatively twisted and complex, but I didn't find the ending as exciting as other crime novels, hence the 4 star rating. The investigator at the forefront of the story is Kurt Wallander, which I found
Mankell's laziest, most hackish work yet, a pastiche of several other books in the series. At this point, I guess he could write them in his sleep. And probably did. Take elements of techno-terrorism or sabotage, Africa, disgruntled teens committing seemingly random crimes, mix, rearrange. He didn't even bother to tie up several loose ends in this one.
Henning Mankell's "Firewall", 8th in his Wallander series about the Swedish detective, was a bit of a mess to me. A somewhat interesting plot, numerous odd decisions, subject matter that I don't believe the author knew enough about to write about, boring prose (I realize it's a translation), solid (except for the stupid decisions) procedures, a somewhat satisfying conclusion, untied loose ends, endless introspection on Kurt Wallander's part...... they all combine for a novel that I would have ty...
I usually enjoy the Wallander novels. This one for me is a 2.5. Wallander has become more self pitying about his life, paranoid about his colleagues and blames all his problems on others. The plot also is weak. Falk a computer consultant checks his bank balance late one night at a ATM. He then apparently suddenly falls down dead. In parallel two teenager girls have brutally murdered a taxi driver and have no remorse. Wallander is investigating the cases and his personal life is a mess. No girlfr...
Firewall is a well thought out and well written crime novel. Kurt Wallander is a bit of an anti-hero but it's easy to feel compassion for him. In this book he's investigating a murder committed by two teenage girls that soon become linked to the death of a man that apparently died of natural causes in front of an ATM machine.The story has its weak points though, e.g. the reason for the perpetrators to go to such great lengths in providing clues for the police to link the two deaths in never adeq...
Actual Rating: 4.5 StarsOthers in this Series:1.) The White Lioness - ★★★★2.) One Step Behind - ★★★★★/Review3.) The Troubled Man - ★★★★★/Review
3.5/5 Kiego Higashino's crime novels focused on "How" instead of "Who". Often you know the perpetrator and the mystery is to figure out how a crime actually happened. Think Mankell's novels are on the same theme. Unlike Christie's novels, where a glance at the last page was tempting, Mankell's novels are all about the procedure - the journey and not the destination. And at 500+ pages, the journey can be long and sometimes frustrating but well worth it.This was a typical Mankell novel with all th...
