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“I can’t deal with angry people until after I’ve had my morning coffee.”
― Henning Mankell, One Step Behind

“Martinsson fired. Wallander watched Lucia fly back and put his hand up to his shoulder. The gun fell from his hand and landed outside the counter. With a bellow Martinsson yanked himself free of the guy ropes and launched himself at the counter, straight at the wounded man. The counter collapsed, and Martinsson landed in a jumble of leather jackets.
Wallander lunged forwards and grabbed the gun from mud. He saw Skinhead dash past him into crowd. No-one seemed to have noticed the shots. The traders in the surrounding stalls had watched in amazement as Martinsson made his ferocious tiger pounce.
“Get after him,â€� Martinsson shouted from the heap of leather jackets. “I’ll take care of this bastard.”
― Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers

“The wife of the dead man had thrown herself down in the mud, and her wails were so piercing that several of the policemen couldn’t tolerate the sound and had moved away. To his surprise, Wallander saw that the only one who was able to handle the grieving woman and the anguished children was Martinsson. The youngest policeman on the force, who so far in his career had never even been forced to notify someone of a relative’s death. He had held the woman, kneeling in the mud, and in some way the two were able to understand each other across the language barrier.”
― Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers

“In many ways Martinsson was the opposite of Svedberg: he was coming up to 30, born in Trollhättan, and had set his sights early on a police career. As a police officer, Martinsson was impulsive and sometime careless, but he often had good ideas and his ambition meant that he worked tirelessly when he though he could see a solution to a problem.”
― Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga

“Martinsson had sifted through the tip-offs. Everything that the police learnt was fed into a computer. Then he did a rough sort. The most ridiculous ones never got beyond the print-outs.
“Hulda Yngveson phoned from Vallby and said that is was the disapproving hand of God that dealt the blow,� said Martinsson.
“She always calls,� sighed Rydberg. “If a calf runs off, it’s because God is displeased.�
“I put her on the C.F. list,� said Martinsson.
The sullen atmosphere was broken by a little amusement when Martinsson explained that C.F. stood for “crazy foolsâ€�.”
― Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers

“It was a feeling which stayed with him after he got back home to his terrace house on the Kristianstad road. When he had finished his dinner and played with his children for a while, he went out with the dog. Martinsson lived in the neighbourhood, so he decided to stop by and tell he and Noren had seen. The dog was a Labrador bitch and Martinsson had asked recently if he could join the waiting list for puppies.”
― Henning Mankell, The White Lioness

“He walked out and closed the door. Linda had the feeling that she was imprisoned, not with a lock and key, but by the imposed time limit. She decided to write down what she was going to say in a note-book, and pulled one across the table towards her. When she flipped it open she was confronted with a bad sketch of a seductively posed naked woman. To her surprise she saw it was Martinsson’s notepad. But why should that surprise me? she thought. All the men I know spend an enormous amount of mental energy undressing women in their minds.”
― Henning Mankell, Before the Frost

“Could you hold Martinsson’s flashlight for a moment?â€� Wallander said to Hansson.
“W³ó²â?â€�
“Just do it, please.�
Martinsson handed Hansson his flashlight. Wallander took a step forward and hit Martinsson in the face. However, since it was hard to judge the distance between them in the shifting beams of the flashlights, the blow didn’t land squarely on the jaw as intended. It was more of a gentle nudge.
“What the hell are you doing?�
“What the hell are you doing?� Wallander yelled back.
Then he threw himself on Martinsson and they fell into the mud. Hansson tried to grab them as they fell, but slipped.”
― Henning Mankell, Firewall

“Martinsson was at the other side of the table, watching him. ‘He knows exactly what’s going on inside my head at the moment,â€� Wallander thought, 'and he agrees with me, whether I speak up now or hold my tongue.”
― Henning Mankell, The Troubled Man