The Troubled Man
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9780307398833
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Troubled Man arrived five years after An Event in Autumn, continuing -- and deliberately concluding -- the Kurt Wallander series in 2009. Mankell wrote it as the character's final case, closing out the run that established the template for the Scandinavian noir genre.
Key facts about The Troubled Man
Henning Mankell wrote The Troubled Man, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2009. The book has 384 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780307398833 to find the main one.
The Troubled Man is book 11 of 11 in the Kurt Wallander series. The series has 11 published books. However, the series starts with Faceless Killers (1991).
Additionally, Henning Mankell writes Joel Gustafson and Sofia as separate series. Those series sit on our young adult and nordic noir shelves. Meanwhile, After the Fire is the latest published Henning Mankell book on file, from 2015.
About Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell was a Swedish author widely credited as one of the founding figures of the Scandinavian noir crime wave that reshaped international crime fiction from the 1990s onward. See every Henning Mankell book in order.
Its place in Kurt Wallander
The Troubled Man is book 11 in the Kurt Wallander series. It follows An Event in Autumn. See the full Kurt Wallander reading order.
Kurt Wallander is a middle-aged detective in the small Swedish town of Ystad, and Henning Mankell built him, deliberately, as the anti-hero of the genre he helped invent: overweight, diabetic, divorced, depressive, and quietly appalled by the racism and social fracture he sees creeping into a Sweden he no longer fully recognises. Mankell used each investigation -- into organised crime, far-right violence, trafficking, political conspiracy -- as a lens on late-20th-century Swedish anxiety about immigration, the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780307398833