The Troubled Man

"With his new Wallander novel Mankell ups his game and enters John le Carr� territory." --Los Angeles Times "[The] perpetually dour Swedish detective is at his gloomy best." --The New York Times Book Review

"At once richer in personal detail and more suspenseful than either a work of strictly mainstream fiction or a simple police novel could be. Mankell remains in the vanguard of those writers taking the crime story back to its origins in the realistic novel." --San Francisco Chronicle

"A magnificent finale." --Financial Times

"Arguably Mankell's best Wallander book--which makes the finale for his rule-breaking, overeating, over-drinking, depressed but ultimately good-hearted and righteous detective all the more poignant." --The Plain Dealer "Mankell's prose is as blunt and pragmatic as his hero." --The New Yorker

"By far the most personal and poignant in this classic and compulsive series." --New York Journal of Books

"Mankell's ability to unspool a mystery and Wallander's ability to solve it are still at the head of the class." --Newsday

"A story that rings deep and hinges on personal stakes. . . . It is the voice of the author--through his hero--and the illumination of layers of life in a thankless profession that lead into a delicious abyss of urgency battling with hopelessness, a rationalization of risk versus a reward already buried under a false headstone." --The Oregonian

"A moving portrait of a man entering old age." --The Times Literary Supplement (London) "A richly embroidered tapestry." --Providence Journal