An Event in Autumn

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