The White Lioness

Got this as part of my trawl through Foyles before NYE. It's the third in the series, and some of the events in it I knew from subsequent books. It's very good where it's in Sweden, though only Wallender comes across as a fully fledged character. The bad-guy (or at least the one with the most lines) is also slightly cartoonish - there's no real sense that he has a backstory or thinks in anything but Dr Evil clichés. Having said that, it's a good book. The atmosphere of provincial Sweden rings true, though obviously I have no way of knowing whether provincial Sweden's like that or not, and it probably isn't. At least when there aren't people being murdered left, right and centre.