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An Event In Autumn
''An Event In Autumn'' is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell. It is the twelfth installation in the Inspector Wallander series, which was made into the television series Wallander (film series), Wallander. It was translated by into English by Laurie Thompson in 2013, and published in August 2014 by Vintage Books. The novel follows Wallander as he attempts to solve the murder of two unknown people. The novella was originally published in Dutch in 2004 as ''Het Graf''. Synopsis Plot Summary In the Swedish town of Ystad, aging Detective Kurt Wallander discovers a body when a skeletal hand surfaces in the garden of a house he is looking to buy. Forensics expert Stina Hurlén identifies the skeleton as having belonged to a woman of about fifty who had been hanged. After surveying the garden again, Wallander later discovers another skeleton, this one belonging to a man of around the same age as the first skeleton and who had been buried for the same amount of time. Walland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Thompson
Laurie Thompson (26 February 1938 – 8 June 2015) was a British Academia, academic and translator, noted for his translations of Swedish language, Swedish literature into English language, English. Thompson was born in York, England, and lived in northern Sweden for a few years. He was the editor of ''Swedish Book Review'' between 1983 and 2002, and a lecturer at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the University of Wales, Lampeter. Bibliography *''Quicksand'' by Henning Mankell, 2016 *''The Man from Beijing (novel), The Man from Beijing'' by Henning Mankell, 2010 *''Italian Shoes'' by Henning Mankell, 2009 *''The Mind's Eye (novel), The Mind's Eye'' by Håkan Nesser, 2008 *''Kennedy's Brain'', by Henning Mankell, 2007 *''The Return (Nesser novel), The Return'' by Håkan Nesser, 2007 *''Frozen Tracks'' by Åke Edwardson, 2007 *''Shadows in the Twilight'' by Henning Mankell, 2007 *''Borkmann's Point'' by Håkan Nesser, 2006 *''The Man Who Smiled'' by Henning Mankell, 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
