When the Snow Fell

Its place in Joel Gustafson

When the Snow Fell is book 3 in the Joel Gustafson series. It follows Shadows in the Twilight. It is followed by The Journey to the End of the World. See the full Joel Gustafson reading order.

Before Kurt Wallander made him internationally famous, Henning Mankell wrote a quartet of novels for younger readers about Joel Gustafson, a boy of eleven growing up in a small town in the far north of Sweden with only his father, a widowed lumberjack, for company. Beginning with A Bridge to the Stars (1990), the books follow Joel through the ordinary, formative texture of a lonely childhood -- keeping a secret list of things he intends to do before he turns twelve, forming an intense private friendship with a…