{"id":1267,"date":"2005-10-14T01:05:08","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T01:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/10\/the_man_who_smi\/"},"modified":"2005-10-14T01:05:08","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T01:05:08","slug":"the_man_who_smi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/the_man_who_smi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Smiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1843430983&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nThe latest Henning Mankell novel&#8217;s recently been published, but it&#8217;s not actually his latest book. It just happens to be one that&#8217;s out of sequence. Actually, we&#8217;ve had loads of Mankell novels out of sequence, but this one jumps back quite a few years and characters who were last known to be dead are suddenly alive. And a character who&#8217;d previously just appeared out of thin air, is now introduced.<br \/>\nAt first I was slightly concerned because I caught a glimpse of a review somewhere that spoke of this being the &#8220;last&#8221; Wallander book, but that&#8217;s more because Mankell&#8217;s concentrating on Wallander&#8217;s daughter now.<br \/>\nAnyway, enough of the background and on to the book itself. It opens with a small town solicitor being murdered on the roadside &#8211; a murder that&#8217;s later made out to be a traffic accident. This is swiftly followed by the murder of his son. Wallander&#8217;s soon on the case, coming out of sick leave to take it on, and we&#8217;re into a case that revolves around a reclusive Swedish tycoon who lives in a castle. Is he to blame, and can the evidence be found to prove it?<br \/>\nOnce again, the novel&#8217;s full of Swedish melancholy, and I never fail to be amazed at the long hours they all seem to work there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Henning Mankell novel&#8217;s recently been published, but it&#8217;s not actually his latest book. It just happens to be one that&#8217;s out of sequence. Actually, we&#8217;ve had loads of Mankell novels out of sequence, but this one jumps back quite a few years and characters who were last known to be dead are suddenly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}