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Mord im Herbst by Henning Mankell

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gagnedouze's review against another edition

3.0

Neither brilliant nor poor, just a good short story.

R.I.P Mr Mankell and thank you for giving the world Kurt Wallander.

barbarianlibarian's review against another edition

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3.0

good quickie. listened to the audio version and the reader is awesome

tobyyy's review against another edition

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4.0

More a novella than an actual novel, this was an interesting brief mystery that occurs later in the Kurt Wallander series. I tried reading Dogs of Riga (book 3 in the Wallander series I believe) a long time ago and couldn’t get into it as the writing style was different from American crime authors — but now that I’ve had more experience and enjoyment of Scandinavian translated crime novels, and know to expect a slightly different cadence and intensity of writing, I may try the series again.

lubos's review against another edition

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2.0

dík Mankell, vďaka tebe sa mi chce spať!

glendareads39's review against another edition

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4.0

This is an interesting short mystery novel. Kurt Wallander is a Swedish detective approaching retirement and reflecting on his 30 year career on the Police Force. Wallander received from his colleague about a small house that his uncle used to live he wants to sell. He inspects a small farm house in the country, then stumbles on a human hand of a corpse reaching out of a garden. He and his team, including his daughter Linda investigates the case. The discovery of the hand leads to a murder that was committed during the mid 20th century. Wallander’s complex character helps get to the bottom of the case. Mankell writes an afterword and an essay where he explains his creation and how the story was published. An event in Autumn was well written and plotted. If you love reading international mystery books that has twists and turns, read the Kurt Wallander Mysteries.