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Título: The Man Who Smiled

Autor: Henning Mankell

Obra adaptada: NO

In The Man Who Smiled, Mankell’s fourth novel starring Kurt Wallander, investigations lead into the heart of an international crime syndicate.

For over a year, Kurt Wallander has been on leave from the police-force. After killing a man, he is riven with self-doubt and is on the verge of quitting the police-force when an intriguing new case arouses his curiosity and lifts his depression. A friendly but concerned lawyer comes to Kurt for help: Sten Torstensson’s father has died in a car accident, but he believes that it is anything but. He claims his father would never have gone driving in the fog, and certainly not at night.

However, two weeks later Sten is also found dead. He’s been shot. Kurt returns to take over the case, which will soon throw up leads that cast the entire investigation into a new light.

http://www.inspector-wallander.org/mysteries/man-who-smiled/

Título: Amsterdam

Autor: Ian McEwan

Obra adaptada: NO

When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the Judge, persuades his old friend Clive Linley, a self-indulgent composer of some reputation, to enter into a euthanasia pact with him. Should either of them be stricken with such an illness, the other will bring about his death. From this point onward we are in little doubt as to Amsterdam’s outcome -it’s only a matter of who will kill whom. In the meantime, compromising photographs of Molly’s most distinguished lover, foreign secretary Julian Garmony, have found their way into the hands of the press, and as rumors circulate he teeters on the edge of disgrace. However, this is McEwan, so it is no surprise to find that the rather unsavory Garmony comes out on top.

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