An Event in Autumn, Henning Mankell
An Event in Autumn, Henning Mankell
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An Event in Autumn

Author: Henning Mankell

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 3 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/12/2014

Synopsis

After nearly thirty years in the same job, Inspector Kurt Wallander is tired, restless, and itching to make a change. He is taken with a certain old farmhouse, perfectly situated in a quiet countryside with a charming, overgrown garden. There he finds the skeletal hand of a corpse in a shallow grave. Wallander’s investigation takes him deep into the history of the house and the land, until finally the shocking truth about a long-buried secret is brought to light.
 
INCLUDES AN AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR

About The Author

Henning Mankell's novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold more than forty million copies worldwide. He is the first winner of the Ripper Award (the new European prize for crime fiction) and has also received the Glass Key and Golden Dagger awards. His Kurt Wallander mysteries have been adapted into a PBS television series starring Kenneth Branagh. Mankell divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Iris on February 15, 2019

No sé por qué me negaba a leer este libro. Aunque fue escrito en el 2004, fue publicado después de acabar la serie. Tal vez porque sabía que era lo último de Wallander. Porque sabía que me causaría nostalgia... y así ha sido. Se me ha quedado un nudo en la garganta igual que cuando terminé El hombre......more

Goodreads review by Ed on August 20, 2014

Anything published by Henning Mankell is must reading for me, especially this novella featuring my favorite Swedish detective, Kurt Wallender. At this point in the series Wallender, closing in on retirement, is thinking about a house in the country, a dog and maybe a girlfriend, not necessarily in t......more

Goodreads review by Dave on December 26, 2020

"I shall never find a house, he thought. No house, no dog, no new woman either. Everything will remain the same as it always has been." The last Wallander mystery, Troubled Man, was published in 2011, but this novella was released in 2014, and fits in chronologically just before that last novel. Writ......more

Goodreads review by Glen on January 20, 2022

Kurt Wallander is drifting into retirement, and wants to buy a small farm out in the countryside. Unfortunately, he finds the hand of corpse while looking around. He and his team, including his daughter, investigate. Very elegiac.......more

Goodreads review by Martin on December 29, 2021

Me encantó! es mi primer acercamiento al autor y su serie del inspector Wallander, ya quiero empezar la serie desde el inicio.......more

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Praise for Henning Mankell

“An arresting writer . . . [Mankell] understands and probes the underside of everyday living in an elegant and artful way. . . . The result is writing that walks a line between ephemeral and everlasting.”
     —The Washington Post
 
“[Mankell’s] Swedish detective, Inspector Kurt Wallander, is one of the most impressive creations in crime fiction today. . . . An old-fashioned moral force and sense of disquiet of the sort rarely found in contemporary crime fiction.”
     —The Guardian

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