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Henning Mankell's Wallander
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Anyone read / reading a Wallander mystery?
http://www.inspector-wallander.org/
Now they intend filming them in Sweden with a UK cast
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1810958,00.html
http://www.inspector-wallander.org/
Now they intend filming them in Sweden with a UK cast
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1810958,00.html
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I don't tend to watch much tv or films and have never seen any of the Rebus tv series. John Hannah being originally cast as Rebus certainly put me off and I haven't seen any of the new actor so I can't comment on him. I probably wouldn't watch any Wallander programmes either.
But if you enjoy a good detective story give them a try (there was one set mainly in South Africa which I particulary enjoyed but I can't remember the name of it at the moment).
The White Lioness
My two favourites are One Step Behind and Fifth Woman.
I created a list of decent Swedish Detective Fiction on amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/R2PWA072Y5BOOM/ref=cm_lm_detail_ctr_full_3/026-3291998-3614013
Thanks for that list - it looks interesting. I am always on the look out for authors that I haven't read before and there are quite a few on there.
Thanks also for jogging my memory re title.
The Hakan Nesser title is the second in an ongoing series. The first has not been published (yet). I like Mankell the most, closely followed by the Tursten books in my list.
Thank you.
I had heard that they were going to make them into a series for British TV. Wonder who will play Wallander? Not convinced about some of the names mooted in the article.
No neither am I. A little more thought needs to be had rather than the names suggested. I think Clive Owen is a fantastic actor, but never in a million years could I see him as a convincing drunk divorced Wallander!!
Harvill Secker is the part of Random House that has the UK rights. Email them at
http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/index.html
Pyramiden in Swedish
http://www.kanalen.org/bok/rec.php?id=343
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/R2MQPCYT3CLHB9/026-3291998-3614013
I have read ' When the Devil Holds the Candle' which I really enjoyed - very tense and a good twist, but that's it out of that list. Which would you particularly recommend?
Mainly in the correct chronological order as was published in Norway.
Anne Holt is good. I haev not read her Punishment, however I read (in Swedish) Blind Goddess (1995) which has not had an English translation (yet). This was excellent, so I expect Punishment to be equally good.
I can't believe that Sjowall and Wahloo aren't on your Swedish Crime List, Vinegar Vera, because there's no-one better, The Laughing Policeman is the best police procedural novel ever written, Roseanna and The Man Who Went Up in Smoke are also fantastic.
I was trying to make it a modern (well 1990 - present) list really. But yes I do love the Sjowall Wahloo series with Beck. Some of the recent films have been good with him too.
Mankell is by far my favourite though and I have yet to read three of the Wallander books. I like the series so much, I want to make it last!!
I don't think so, although they do make little references to things that have happened in the past. But I started reading them in the middle, read three in a row and then went back to the beginning. They made sense and there weren't any problems. But after reading the first ones, little things in the later books fell into place for me.
I love Wallander. Not hugely keen on the one about the African guy who's in Ystad to murder someone, because there were huge chunks without any Wallander, told from the murderer's perspective, and I got bored and missed Kurt.
I'm currently reading The Return of the Dancing Master, which isn't Wallander but is about Stefan Lindman (who you'll know if you've watched the Swedish Wallander series) before he came to Ystad. It's really good, and I'm gripped so far.
I don't think it will ruin the rest but I think you would be best reading them in order. If you google Henning Mankell (or any other author) you will find a site www.fantasticfiction which lists all the books in order of publication. I use this site a lot and then order the books from my library.
I too enjoyed Return Of The Dancing Master. Stefan Lindman is also mentioned fairly frequently in Before The Frost, which is a Linda Wallander novel. We briefly see Svartman too, who is in the Swedish Wallander series but not in the earlier Wallander books.
Bye for now
Paula
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/28/the-troubled-man-henning-mankell
It's a bit old but sums up the books perfectly!
Oh Svartman!!
It's worth noting that that contains ALL the spoilers for the last Wallander novel. Avoid the link if you haven't read it yet.
It's a very apt summary. Not the jolliest of reads at all.