> I'd like to know what's your opinion about this
writer, I've read one of his
> books THE FIFTH WOMAN and thought it was quite
good.
>
> Bye,
> Virginia
You might say that Henning Mankell took up where the Swedish
authors Sjoowall/Wahloo left in 1975 with their police
procedural series of ten novels which they named "A novel
about a crime", the crime being the Swedish sosial-democratic
authorities' alienatien from the Swedish people.
Mankell has written 8 chronological novels about a policeman
in a small Swedish town. His name is Kurt Wallander. In his
9th book in the series, a collection of 5 chronolgical short
stories about Wallander before the series starts in 1990, he
says in the preface to the book that after writing the last
book, he finally understood that the subtitle to all the
novels should have been "Novels about the Swedish
uneasiness".
They're exceedingly well-written, well-plotted books. And
hard-boiled in my view.
THE FIFTH WOMAN is the sixth book in the series.
Regards, Geir Glosvik
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