Hmmmm.... I dropped the ball for a little while on updating the blog. I'm so sorry! So I have to remember all that I have read. I will start with The Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell. As you probably have gathered, I love this author. I love his protagonist. And I love how smart and original and well set these mysteries are. But this one was truly awful. It was as if Mankell was just sitting at his desk staring out the window and every once in a while he would write a sentence or two because he felt like he had to. Very disappointing.