The Troubled Man nominated for Best Novel

The very last novel in the Wallander series, The Troubled Man, has been nominated for Best Novel in the 2012 Barry Awards. In 2009 another Swedish writer, Stieg Larsson, won the award for his novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Earlier winners of the Barry Award have been George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane and Denise Mina.

The Barry Award is a crime literary prize awarded annually by the editors of Deadly Pleasures, an american publication for crime fiction readers. The prize is named after the American critic Barry Gardner.