An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery (Kurt Wallander #9.5 )

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 Review Praise for the Kurt Wallander series: • "No crime writer balances genre conventions with personal concerns as well as Mankell." The Boston Globe • "Mankell is that unusual thing: a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature." The New York Times • "The Wallander series [is] essential reading for all crime-fiction fans." Booklist • "Mankell's lugubrious Swedish detective, Inspector Kurt Wallander, is one of the most impressive creations in crime fiction today.... Like a Baltic Inspector Morse, [Wallander] cogitates gloomily on the increase in cases of child abuse, drug smuggling and racial violence.... An old-fashioned moral force and sense of disquiet of the sort rarely found in contemporary crime fiction." The Guardian About the Author HENNING MANKELL's novels have been translated into 40 languages and have sold more than 40 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 were adapted into a PBS television series starring Kenneth Branagh. Mankell divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique. Fiction,Mystery & Detective,International Mystery & Crime,Thrillers,General The eleventh riveting installment in the mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander • 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 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. En hstdag 2002 fr Kurt Wallander mjligheten att frverkliga en gammal drm, att flytta frn Ystad till ett hus ute p landet. Men drmmen frvandlas till en mardrm. I husets trdgrd hittar Wallander frst ett nedgrvt lik, sedan ytterligare ett. Den kriminaltekniska underskningen visar att de har legat ett halvt sekel i jorden. Men vilka var dessa personer? Och hur kommer det sig att ingen har anmlt dem saknade? Wallander och hans kollegor tvingas ska sig bakt i det frflutna fr att hitta svaret p gtan. Spren leder mot en tragedi, dr det r svrt att veta vem som egentligen r offer och vem som r frvare. Handen innehller ocks ett extramaterial fr alla Wallander-fans: ett uppslagsverk till Wallanders vrld med kulturella referenser, personer och platser som frekommit i romanserien. When Inspector Kurt Wallander discovers a shallow grave in the garden of his new house, he investigates the truth about the residence and its previous owner.