I haven't even read any of the Wallanders, though it sounds like I should.
But Secrets in the Fire was a YA novel he wrote and went down very well
with a group of otherwise reluctant readers I taught. The novel was
written, as I recall, from the point of view of a ten year old girl whose
legs had been taken from her by land mine.
Bill
On Tuesday, October 6, 2015, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I enjoyed Henning Mankell for so many years -and am rather heavily into
> all Nordic Noir!will miss him Patrick
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Upton
> Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 4:34 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Henning Mankell
>
> & now Henning Mankell is dead.
>
> I've read a few non-Wallanders and all the Wallanders. The last one, the
> unhappy man or the ill at ease man.... something like that... very fine.
> Rather an achievement to come up with such a relatively unpleasant
> character as Wallander and make the story enjoyable
>
> You can keep your Kenneth Branaghs.
>
> Anyway, he's dead and I'm sulking. (I read a Steig Larsson after Rebecca
> and thought "good, but not anything as good as Mankell". Huh
>
> L
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