"If you can call Le Carré a crime writer, he investigates the contradictions inside man, between men, and between man and society and I hope to do the same. Mankell cites John le Carré as another key influence and admires the way he develops George Smiley with each subsequent book. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society." He says the best crime story he has ever read is Macbeth - "a terrible allegory about the corrupting tendency of power that could equally be about President Nixon". "You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. "I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks," Mankell says. "But Mankell is modern, and he makes you reflect on society." Questions of responsibility and morality - of justice and democracy - are explicitly raised, which is unusual in detective fiction. "There's a belief that crime fiction should be about little old ladies solving murders in country villages," she says. She admires their edgy, convincing police work and social concerns. Ruth Rendell, who is half Swedish, has read all nine in the original. In his native Sweden the series was to triumph spectacularly and he has sold more than 20 million books worldwide Wallander outsells Harry Potter in Germany and is top of the book charts in Brazil. T welve years ago, when Henning Mankell published the first of his Inspector Wallander novels, he could not have imagined how successful they would be.
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