It is when he eschews poetics that his gifts – psychological acuity and compassion – are best displayed
Daily Telegraph

It is when he eschews poetics that his gifts – psychological acuity and compassion – are best displayed
Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph

It is when he eschews poetics that his gifts – psychological acuity and compassion – are best displayed
Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph

The end result is some brilliantly atmospheric writing and insightful analysis
Jessica Mann, Literary Review

The end result is some brilliantly atmospheric writing and insightful analysis
Jessica Mann, Literary Review

The end result is some brilliantly atmospheric writing and insightful analysis
Literary Review

Mesmerically fascinating in Laurie Thompson’s fluent translation, Depths has, for all the authenticities of period, much of the folk-ballad about it…this novel is as fine a narrative performance as any of Mankell’s yet
Independent

Mesmerically fascinating in Laurie Thompson’s fluent translation, Depths has, for all the authenticities of period, much of the folk-ballad about it…this novel is as fine a narrative performance as any of Mankell’s yet
Paul Binding, Independent

Mesmerically fascinating in Laurie Thompson’s fluent translation, Depths has, for all the authenticities of period, much of the folk-ballad about it…this novel is as fine a narrative performance as any of Mankell’s yet
Paul Binding, Independent

The fog-bound islands off the Stockholm coast are beautifully evoked…Questions of morality in politics, of justice and democracy, are explicitly raised
Sunday Telegraph

The fog-bound islands off the Stockholm coast are beautifully evoked…Questions of morality in politics, of justice and democracy, are explicitly raised
Sunday Telegraph

The fog-bound islands off the Stockholm coast are beautifully evoked…Questions of morality in politics, of justice and democracy, are explicitly raised
Sunday Telegraph

There is a haunting quality to Mankell's writing in Laurie Thompson's translation, and he is good at isolation and loneliness
Marcel Berlins, The Times

There is a haunting quality to Mankell's writing in Laurie Thompson's translation, and he is good at isolation and loneliness
Marcel Berlins, The Times

There is a haunting quality to Mankell's writing in Laurie Thompson's translation, and he is good at isolation and loneliness
The Times

A noirish psychological thriller, steeped in eerie premonitions and symbolism, in prose that’s as cold, empty and pitiless as the landscape it describes
Metro

A noirish psychological thriller, steeped in eerie premonitions and symbolism, in prose that’s as cold, empty and pitiless as the landscape it describes
Metro

A noirish psychological thriller, steeped in eerie premonitions and symbolism, in prose that’s as cold, empty and pitiless as the landscape it describes
Metro

The fog-bound islands and grey October skies of the Baltic are beautifully evoked; only Mankell can summon with such a dream-like intensity the Nordic landscapes and climates he knows so well...Mankell is, without doubt, one of the most impressive crime writers at work in Europe today
Ian Thomson, Guardian

The fog-bound islands and grey October skies of the Baltic are beautifully evoked; only Mankell can summon with such a dream-like intensity the Nordic landscapes and climates he knows so well...Mankell is, without doubt, one of the most impressive crime writers at work in Europe today
Guardian

The fog-bound islands and grey October skies of the Baltic are beautifully evoked; only Mankell can summon with such a dream-like intensity the Nordic landscapes and climates he knows so well...Mankell is, without doubt, one of the most impressive crime writers at work in Europe today
Ian Thomson, Guardian

A surprising departure. This is no police procedural, but a terse, gripping dissection of a broken man whose private morality is as barren as the frozen wastes that betray his destiny
Chris Moss, TLS

A surprising departure. This is no police procedural, but a terse, gripping dissection of a broken man whose private morality is as barren as the frozen wastes that betray his destiny
TLS

A surprising departure. This is no police procedural, but a terse, gripping dissection of a broken man whose private morality is as barren as the frozen wastes that betray his destiny
Chris Moss, TLS

Totally absorbing
Ed Miliband, Guardian Summer Reading

Skilfully woven
Cathi Unsworth, Guardian

Totally absorbing
Ed Miliband, Guardian Summer Reading