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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39793.Before_the_Frost?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Before the Frost" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1169315338m/39793.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39793.Before_the_Frost?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Before the Frost</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22339.Henning_Mankell">Henning Mankell</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5734198?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>Oh, Henning Mankell! This was the first one of his I picked up, and then I seared a path through all of his other Kurt Wallander mysteries. They're flawed, I guess, but the best ones are just exactly what I want to read most of the time. Spare prose, ambiguous, unsolvable (to a certain extent) mysteries, and Wallander is at the heart of their appeal, second only to Jane Tennyson (sp?) in terms of gruff-but-loveable fictional detectives. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/349446?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>