Return of the Dancing Master - Henning Mankell

Having discovered Mankell a few years ago I've been working my way through his novels. Anyone who is familiar with his books will know that they are normally set in Sweden and feature Inspector Wallander who I must admit I do enjoy reading. I grabbed this book off the shelf without checking what it was about, as I knew it wasn't one I'd already read. A quick scan when I got back home I noticed that Wallander wasn't mentioned but I didn't let this bother me. I wondered if it would be as good as the Wallander series and was interested to see how it would compare. The Return Of The Dancing Master is a rather boring title I thought and it never intrigued me to what it was ...  Read the complete review

Introduction This was the first book by Henning Mankell I read, so not being familiar with the Kurt Wallander series, I wasn't disappointed that this was a non-series book introducing another detective, Stefan Lindman, who later appears in Henning Mankell's latest Wallander book, 'Before the Frost' (NB the latest published book in the UK, 'The Man Who Smiled', is one of Mankell's earlier books that had not previously been translated). 'Return of the Dancing Master' had me hooked right from the beginning and I have been a huge fan of Mankell's work ever since. The author Henning Mankell is Swedish, born in Stockholm in 1948, yet he spends a great ...  Read the complete review