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From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. First published in Sweden in 1994, Mankell's terrific fourth Kurt Wallender mystery opens with the kind of startling image typical of this internationally bestselling series (_Firewall_, etc.): a lawyer, driving home through the fog, stops after he sees "a human-sized effigy" propped on a chair in the middle of a deserted highway. Gustaf Torstensson gets out of the car to investigate, is hit from behind and was "dead before his body hit the damp asphalt." The police accept the assailant's claim that it was an accident, but when Torstensson's son, Sten, is shot dead just two weeks later, the brooding Wallender, who's on sick leave and vowing to retire from the Ystad police force, decides to pursue the killer and resume his career. The chief suspect—a powerful, globe-trotting Swedish businessman who's the smiling man of the title—leads Wallender on an exquisitely plotted search for motive and evidence. Dark and moody, this is crime fiction of the highest order. (Sept.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Swedish crime writer Mankell has taken U.S. publishing by storm over the last dec

Who reads The Man Who Smiled?

Author

Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson

Publisher

Random House, Inc.

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781843431060

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.93 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14