I’ve never read a Wallander mystery.  That’s going to change this summer.  Last week, when I really needed a mystery fix, all I could quickly lay my hands on was an ecopy of The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell, the author best known for the Wallander series.

You have to love a book that starts with 18 mutilated corpses (and a spare), a judge bored with her life, a Chinese businessman trying to buck the Communist system in a one-man-band way and all sorts of police investigators who have just too many cases to work on at the same time while being told by their superiors to be nice to reporters and the public.

This reminded me of the Stieg Larsson Millenium Trilogy.  Rather talky in some places.  Very introspective.  Occasionally just a mite slow as it leads up to something nasty. 

This was a good book.  I zipped through it in a matter of days in my really quite spare times.  Now I’m going to get set to read a Wallander.