Henning Mankell is not very popular in India. I discovered him recently, thanks to one of my oldest friends, Arun Kakar. He is a voracious reader and told me, when I complained that I was running out of Anglo-Saxon crime books, that I should try the Scandinavian ones. He gave me a book by Mankell and said if I liked it, he had several more.
That was five years ago and since then I have read quite a few Scandinavian crime writers. In my opinion, Mankell is the best of the lot. I am a fan. Mankell, by the way,
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