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Title: Murders in Mankell's home valley!
Review: This was the third Mankell mystery I'd read (the other two are "Die falsche Fährte", " Brannvegg", then later "Hunde von Riga") and it's fully up to par. Hard to say whether Firewall is really better. Here, as in "Firewall" (and as opposed to "Die falsche Fährte") the book takes off and flies from the beginning. The suspense builds enormously but there came a point where I doubted, with all the tangled loose threads, if Mankell could bring it to a decent ending (according to John Berger, and maybe Kafka as well, a writer should never have a specific ending in mind, just let it fall out as the writing progresses). Anyway, the book ended reasonably after all. Highly recommendable. Mankell and Donna Leon are the only mysteries I can tolerate, having read Sherlock Holmes much earlier in life.This review is based on the Norwegian translation, "Danselrerens tilbakkekomst".
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