An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery Audiobook

Quotes

• “Capture[s] the unsettled state of Wallander’s mind toward the end of his career, when he is ‘pleased with his performance as a police officer,’ but not at all ‘pleased with his life as a human being.’”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “An arresting writer…[Mankell] understands and probes the underside of everyday living in an elegant and artful way…The result is writing that walks a line between ephemeral and everlasting.”

  — Washington Post

• “[Mankell’s] Swedish detective, Inspector Kurt 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.”

  — Guardian

• “Compelling …Has much to say about aging, history, and justice. Mankell’s insightful afterword about the genesis of his hero and his initial decision to write crime fiction (to combat racism in Sweden) is a plus.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Miraculously, nothing about the story’s small scale prevents Wallander from casting a shadow as long as ever…As a bonus, Mankell appends a reminiscence of Wallander’s creation and a brief account of this tale’s composition that includes its saddest sentence: ‘There are no more stories about Kurt Wallander.’”

  — Kirkus Reviews