When I get tired of reading other things I fall back on mystery series and have been searching for one that's new to me. Enter the Kurt Wallender mysteries, recently made into a Masterpiece Mystery series on PBS (which I haven't watched...yet). In this first book in the series Wallander is a middle-aged, soon to be divorced, Swedish police officer who is estranged from his adult daughter, drinks too much, and is gaining weight from eating junk food. When a seemingly innocent elderly farm couple is brutally murdered, Wallander heads up the investigation. The woman's last word was "foreign" which immediately sheds suspicion on the large refugee population of the area. Soon the police discover that the innocent farmer was not all that he seemed which takes the investigation in another direction. But someone is threatening the lives of the refugees which adds to Wallander's problems which also include his father suffering from dementia and a possible love interest with the new district attorney. There's a lot going on in less than 300 pages. This is a tidy police procedural and a series I'll probably continue reading.
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