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An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery Audiobook
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After nearly thirty years in the same job, Inspector Kurt Wallander is tired, restless, and itching to make a change. He is taken with a certain old farmhouse, perfectly situated in a quiet countryside with a charming, overgrown garden. There he finds the skeletal hand of a corpse in a shallow grave. Wallander’s investigation takes him deep into the history of the house and the land, until finally the shocking truth about a long-buried secret is brought to light.
INCLUDES AN AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR
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“Simon Vance echoes the weight ofdetective Kurt Wallander’s world-weariness, disappointments, and regrets in hisperformance of this novella…Vance gives sidecharacters, such as Wallander’s live-in adult daughter, Linda, bright, upbeatvoices, delineating their personalities while adding depth to Wallander’sfeelings of disconnection and isolation as he explores the long and far-reachingeffects of a violent act. The production concludes with an afterword in whichMankell reflects on his writing career. A serious, surprising mystery for fansof the series as well as those new to Mankell’s work.”
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“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.’”
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“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.”
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“[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.”
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“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.”
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“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
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A New York Times bestseller
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A Washington Post bestseller
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A Publishers Weekly bestseller
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About Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell (1948–2015) was Sweden’s most-read author worldwide. His novels, which include the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries, have been translated into thirty-seven languages with more than thirty million copies in print worldwide. He has received the Crime Writers’ Association’s Macallan Gold Dagger and the German Tolerance Prize and has been a three-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Mystery/Thriller Book Prize.
About Simon Vance
Simon Vance (a.k.a. Robert Whitfield) is an award-winning actor and narrator. He has earned more than fifty Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration thirteen times. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and has been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. He is also an actor who has appeared on both stage and television.