pearl_seeker's Reviews > An Event in Autumn

I read more about the weather in Sweden than about any character or event! And the weather was just as uninteresting as the plot. There is no character development, no tension, no plot twists/turns! This book was as dry and uninteresting as a history book. If you want to engage us in a 50+ year-old murder, you either have to take us back in time or tie it to the present in a way that makes us care. This book does neither.

This Kurt Wallander book appears to have been written solely to inform us that people migrated to Sweden during World War II. Well, there you go! I've informed you of same and have saved you reading the book! The ONLY thing this book has going for it is its extreme brevity (149 pgs in the English translation).