The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning MankellMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Having finished the Kurt Wallander series a few months back, I was hankering for a depressed (and depressing) detective with health issues and bad personal habits working on a gruesome case. And Mankell provides. This was much like a Wallander story, except our detective is a little more sick and more whiney. And, as in a few of the Wallander stories, there is a lecture, in this case about how neo-Nazis are bad. Mankell rarely misses an opportunity to lecture his readers on the world’s ills. I found the plot somewhat fun, but somewhat a confusing mess. But I do enjoy the characters Mankell writes. They grow on you throughout the book as they get fleshed out. OK as a standalone mystery.
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