"The White Lioness" by Henning Mankell

Ok this must be about the sixth Inspector Wallander novel I've read and, while I like them for their intrinsic Swedishness, I'm starting to see the holes (yes, yes, I know, I can be a bit slow on the uptake). First of all, the dual setting for this one - Sweden and South Africa - doesn't really work. It's like trying to meld two different books together. And the South African bits are full of the worst kind of hackery... "President de Klerk sighed as he laid down his pen. Sometimes, it was very hard work bringing democracy to a country..." - that kind of thing, really, I could write that (though I'd be embarrassed to). The Swedish bits work better, but the characters of the other policemen and women are brought out less than in the other novels. The whole thing smacks of being a bit of a rush job. Still, effortless holiday reading, innit?