I just finished Henning Mankell's The White Lioness, a Kurt Wallendar. Back in 2010 after reading his Firewall I had decided to dedicate my life to reading all his work until I picked up Faceless Killers and the grisly murder scene description in the first chapter made me dedicate my life to other things. But I had to try again and I took up The White Lioness somewhat gingerly but thinking I could maybe tough it out. It was fantastic. It has to do with a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela and somehow it involves Kurt Wallender in Sweden. There are quite a few people killed but since we are dealing with assassins they shoot everyone cleanly through the head for the most part. Even though you kind of suspect they are not going to end up shooting Mandela (spoiler alert!) you are on the edge of your seat until the last page. Wallender is his usual depressive morose self, drinking too much, shuffling around with too little sleep, eating bad food and drunk-dialing old girlfriends.
Henning Mankel just wrote a piece for the NYT about listening and storytelling focusing particularly on African storytelling. As my friend Rico would say "that man can write." and as I say: you should read it: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/opinion/sunday/in-africa-the-art-of-listening.html?_r=3
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