This is the last Mankel I finished yesterday, I'm still completely blown away by the thriller that ... like all Mankell thrillers are much more than thrillers effects of twists, but rather a fine study of the company Swedish I know well also personally (and I love I must say). I really liked this one, first in the description of the landscape, but especially in a rather dark history of Sweden and his ambiguous relations with Nazism, during and after the end of the war, to the ramifications current! Do not be surprised, and do not believe that this is only "Nordic" .... these dark offshoots exist everywhere, (starting with France, Holland, Belgium, UK, etc ..) and we can see the rise of the extreme right in Europe. Definitely, for me is a great writer Mankel (knowing that I read as his "other products")! An engaged writer who try to spend a few first peace message in all his work but also prudence and vigilance ... especially not guard down ... everything can start over and explode!