The release date for the English version of 'The Man Who Smiled' by
Henning Mankell is Sep 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
After murdering a man while doing his duties, Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself in a profound emotional and professional crisis at the start of The Man Who Smiled. He finally makes the decision to permanently leave the Ystad police department. But at that same moment, Wallander's buddy, who had requested him to investigate his father's tragedy, is shot three times and dies. The first female investigator in the department, Ann-Britt Hoglund, turns out to be his greatest ally as he attempts to break through the tough exterior of his main suspect, a formidable international business magnate. However, the same enigmatic dangers that are behind the killings are closing in on Wallander just as he is about to learn the truth.
The Man Who Smiled is the fourth of Henning Mankell's eight Wallander novels that have been released in English to date. It features every one of his abilities as a master of the contemporary police procedural that have won him hordes of admirers across the globe.