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A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.

Firewall (Kurt Wallander #8)

Firewall - Henning Mankell, Ebba Segerberg

bookshelves: mystery-thriller, re-read

Read in December, 2008, read count: 2

 

Vanity, my dear, all is vanity ... and hacking of course.

Wallander (pronounced 'var-LAND-ah') is a nihilist detective and this anarchaic and murderous tale frames his personality well. I love it that the ending was not all down pat - there were events that could not be explained. Check out the town of Ystad here:

http://www.thelocal.se/15404/20081103/