"He is in the gerat tradition of those whose works transcend their chosen genre to become thrilling and moral literature." -Michael Ondaatje-
"Mankell is that unusual thing: a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature and who has broken out as an international phenomenon." -Saray Lyall, The New York Times-
"Mankell is one of the most ingenious crime writers around." -The Observer(London)-
"Henning Mankell is crime fiction's master juggler. Few of this genre's writers few of any genre's writers have been able to balance the ordinary and the grotesque with such literary dash and page turning brio." -The Boston Globe-