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Barbara is an award-winning bookseller who has a special interest in fiction, especially Australian fiction and children’s books for all ages.
An Event in Autumn is set in 2002 and this compelling short novel chronicles an episode in the life of Kurt Wallander who shares his flat in Sweden with his daugher Linda. He decides to take a look at a house in the country owned by a colleague's relative. It is an abandoned farmhouse and Wallander discovers the remains of a human hand sticking out of the brown clay soil. The crime scene professionals who take over eventually discover two bodies, their identities are completely unknown but foul play is suspected. The search for what happened to the victims baffles and consumes Wallander who observes "the past has closed all doors behind it". The search for their names and fate consumes the book which 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 superb plus. BBC television adapted some of Henning Mankell's novels in their BAFTA award winning series Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh.
