Not only was Henning Mankell’s The Troubled Man a featured Book of the Day last week—it is also the Top Pick for mystery and suspense for the month of April!
This novel is the final installment of Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series, and Whodunit columnist Bruce Tierney says it will one day “be required reading in mystery writing classes, a genre novel that indisputably transcends the genre.” That alone made me want to mark this one for my TBR.
Get more details in this atmospheric trailer:
For more on Mankell, read an interview about The Man from Beijing.
Have you seen any good book trailers lately?
I haven’t read Mankell yet but I plan to. This year, I am loving Jo Nesbo. There is just something about Scandinavian crime fiction that I don’t get in American crime fiction. The sensibilty is different and as another blogger put it, Scandinavian writers don’t write for the ADD set like American writers do.
One I work my way through Nesbo, I plan to pick up Mankell.
must i read all the books in the series to get to this one?
Hi Terri,
I haven’t read this particular series, but in my experience with long-running thriller series, you can usually jump right in. Plot-wise, you won’t be lost if you skip the books that come first. Does anyone else have an opinion on this? Happy reading!
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