![]() He drinks less, has more functional relationships and has developed a faith in his investigative team. The hard-boiled Kurt Wallander has softened slightly since he was first introduced in Faceless Killers, the first title in the series. ![]() Sidetracked, the fifth of Henning Mankell's acclaimed Kurt Wallander mysteries, and the second to be translated into English, is an engrossing police procedural. As the Swedish midsummer approaches there is no escaping from the darkness of society. "The Swedish summer-time is too beautiful and too brief for something like this to happen." A young girl commits self-immolation, a former government minister is killed with an axe and scalped these are the two brutal facts that confront Inspector Kurt Wallander as he prepares for his holiday. ![]()
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