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Sidetracked

By Henning Mankell, Steven T. Murray (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9781400031566

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Fourth in the Kurt Wallander series.
In the award-winning Sidetracked, Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a bContinue

Fourth in the Kurt Wallander series.
In the award-winning Sidetracked, Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden's former Minister of Justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation is beset with a handful of obstacles--a department distracted by the threat of impending cutbacks and the frivolity of World Cup soccer, a tenuous long-distance relationship with a murdered policeman's widow, and the unshakably haunting preoccupation with the young girl who set herself on fire. Fascinating and astute, Sidetracked is a compelling mystery enhanced by keen social awareness.

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    Henning Mankell is a Swedish thriller writer whose Kurt Wallander books bear a strong resemblance to Maj Sjšwall and Per Wahlšš's Martin Beck stories. In other words, stand by for a series of police procedural page-turners with a left-wing take on Sw ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • A slower pace than the others I've read. Not very surprising but still a very detailed police procedural plot.
    And if like me, you've read the first four and like Wallander and the other characters you have to read on, don't you?

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    Nini said on Aug 31, 2011 about the Audio Cassette edition | Add your feedback

  • Very good, but a little slower than others in the Kurt Wallander series

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    beth said on Jul 9, 2007 | Add your feedback

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