This is sad news. I read a number of the books. And enjoyed the Swedish TV version - more than the British one, though it was alright.
I made a visit to Ystad last year, where the books were set. Predictably, they had Wallander walking tours and a handy Wallander map. We didn't exactly do that but did encounter sites mentioned in the books or TV series, plural.
Jill
On 06/10/2015, at 8:05 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
> 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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