Kennedy's Brain / Henning Mankell 326 p.

A non-Wallander Henning Mankell and my first disappointment with this author. An interesting story, about a woman whose adult son dies in bed with no logical explanation. Her journey to understand his death takes her throughout Europe, Australia, and finally to Africa to a hospice of last resort for AIDS patients. Mankell ends the story unsatisfactorily, hinting without explaining at a huge international conspiracy in which wealthy western nations deliberately foment the AIDS epidemic in Africa. I'm as cynical as the next person, but this was a bit much, especially since he never explained what the motives for this 'strategy' would be, and how it would work.