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After killing a man in the line of duty, Kurt Wallander resolves to quit the Ystad police. However, a bizarre case gets under his skin.
A lawyer driving home at night stops to investigate an effigy sitting in a chair in the middle of the highway. The lawyer is hit over the head and dies. Within a week the lawyer’s son is also killed. These deeply puzzling mysteries compel Wallander to remain on the force. The prime suspect is a powerful corporate mogul with a gleaming smile that Wallander believes hides the evil glee of a killer. Joined by Ann-Britt Hoglund, Wallander begins to uncover the truth, but the same merciless individuals responsible for the murders are now closing in on him.
- Sales Rank: #46205 in Books
- Model: 3576547
- Published on: 2007-09-25
- Released on: 2007-09-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .73" w x 5.24" l, .54 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. First published in Sweden in 1994, Mankell's terrific fourth Kurt Wallender mystery opens with the kind of startling image typical of this internationally bestselling series (Firewall, etc.): a lawyer, driving home through the fog, stops after he sees "a human-sized effigy" propped on a chair in the middle of a deserted highway. Gustaf Torstensson gets out of the car to investigate, is hit from behind and was "dead before his body hit the damp asphalt." The police accept the assailant's claim that it was an accident, but when Torstensson's son, Sten, is shot dead just two weeks later, the brooding Wallender, who's on sick leave and vowing to retire from the Ystad police force, decides to pursue the killer and resume his career. The chief suspect—a powerful, globe-trotting Swedish businessman who's the smiling man of the title—leads Wallender on an exquisitely plotted search for motive and evidence. Dark and moody, this is crime fiction of the highest order. (Sept.)
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From Booklist
Swedish crime writer Mankell has taken U.S. publishing by storm over the last decade, launching a genre-altering invasion of his fellow Scandinavian mystery authors and (with other Europeans such as John Harvey and Andrea Camilleri) reinterpreting the notion of the hard-boiled hero. No longer the strong, silent, stand-up guy of American fiction, the new European hero, led by Mankell's Kurt Wallander, faces the horrors of the modern world with a sagging spirit, nearly overwhelmed. Lately, though, Mankell has rested Wallander, focusing instead on other cops in and around Ystad, Sweden, including Wallander's daughter, Linda, the star of Before the Frost (2005). Now the series returns to Wallander but backtracks in time. The Man Who Smiled, written in 1994, was the fourth in the series but is only now appearing in the U.S. It finds Wallander on the verge of quitting the Ystad police force; then a friend who had asked for his help is killed, and the would-be retiree is compelled to go back to work. The case that unfolds, involving a the head of a multinational corporation who traffics in the selling of human organs, opens yet another window on the unimaginable horrors of modern life, but this time Wallander responds with new resolve. Devotees of the series will be thrilled to pick up this missing chapter in the ongoing saga, but it is a bit disconcerting to keep the chronology straight. Still, any new Wallander novel--in whatever order--constitutes a major event in crime fiction. Bill Ott
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Review
“Compelling . . . skillfully plotted and suspenseful. . . . A thriller for the thinking reader.”
—Dallas Morning News
“Mankell’s novels are a joy.”
—USA Today
“Absorbing. . . . In the masterly manner of P.D. James, Mankell projects his hero's brooding thoughts onto nature itself.”
—The New York Times
“Wallander is a loveable gumshoe. . . . He is one of the most credible creations in contemporary crime fiction.”
—The Guardian
Most helpful customer reviews
248 of 250 people found the following review helpful.
excellent, but if you are new to Wallander Mysteries, read them in sequence...
By Mariusz Ozminkowski
Other reviewers said all that had to be said. I have one suggestion to readers that are new to Kurt Wallander Mystery Novels. Read them in sequence. Unfortunately, they were translated to English out of order. Here is the correct order: 1. Faceless Killers (1991 2. The Dogs of Riga (1992) 3. The White Lioness 1993 4. The Man Who Smiled 1994 5. Sidetracked 1995 6. The Fifth Woman 1996 7. One Step Behind (1997 8. Firewall (1998 9. Before the Frost (2002) and The Troubled Man (2009), the last case of Wallander. Also, consider another 'non-Wallander' mystery: The Return of the Dancing Master (2000) and The Man From Beijing (2010). I hope I didn't miss anything...
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
The writing is quite good, the character development is well above average
By Radio Lab Listener
After seeing the Wallender mysteries on TV, this is the first book in the series that I read. The writing is quite good, the character development is well above average, and the plot, though quite engaging, seems, like a lot of other mystery novels, a bit far-fetched (though I'm aware that such things do actually happen).
I will probably read other novels in the series and, readers of this review should know, I seldom give five stars. So four stars is pretty good.
The reason I didn't give five stars is that unlike some mystery writers such as Dick Francis, Michael Connelly, CJ Box, Paul Doiron, and William Kent Krueger, where I really come to enjoy the "company" of the main characters and can't wait until I can spend more time with them in the next novel, after finishing this book I didn't feel like I was "missing" Wallender and anxious to "spend more time with him."
Still, a pretty good book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A wonderful, subtle, minimal to no violence author, who meticulously gathers minute clues into a slowly clear picture
By Old A-V guy
Great story; too bad there aren't enough more of his fine, subtle, realistic novels. Great series to get if you're looking for a new author; only the first one is a bit weak, and that's because I'd read #'s 4 and 6, by which he'd really honed his craft. Google a list that shows them in order, and try to go that way; there are subtle, infrequent mentions of aspects of cases from a prior book. Not significant; each stands very well on it's own. But, the detective, and his daughter, and his father are aging as the novels progress, and that's reflected in the narrative, and minimally in some of the plots.
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