Wallander Time

The Rio Mesa Spartans (3-4, 1-1 Pacific View League) host the Channel Islands Raiders (2-5, 0-2) in the annual Homecoming Game tonight.

In related football news, the San Francisco 49ers (1-6) play the Denver Broncos (2-5) in London this weekend. I know that many members of the Hässleholm Hurricanes family will be in attendance at this crucial NFL contest. I suspect that many of the Elephants will also venture from Catania to the UK for the weekend's festivities.

I know that it will be a GREAT DAY FOR AMERICAN FOOTBALL!

Meanwhile, back in the world of literature . . .

I continue to pour through Henning Mankell's intriguing Kurt Wallader mysteries set in the Skåne region of Sweden.

Firewall was about computer crime and I actually finished it on the Camino. I felt that Mankell was starting to hit a wall in his Wallander series with this effort. He actually took a long break from Wallander before finally penning . . .

I finished The Pyramid this morning. A prequel, it is a series of short stories detailing Wallander's life in crime fighting before he appears in the first of the Wallander mysteries, Faceless Killers.

I have really enjoyed all of his books but occasionally want to strangle Wallander, he never learns from his own mistakes.

I am now down to the final book in the Wallander series, Before the Frost.

What will I do without him and Swedish crime stories???