About this title: Kurt Wallander is back. This time he must discover why a teenage girl doused herself in petrol and burned herself to death, leaving no clues as to who she was. Then a former minister of justice is butchered in a bizarre murder that proves to be the first of a killer who strikes again and again.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780099526629ISBN:009952662X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780099526629ISBN:009952662X
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Edition: Paperback Edition, First Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Harvill Press, London
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781860468377ISBN:1860468373
Description: Good++ Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Minor cover wear/creasing-otherwise clean and sound. 421pp. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780099446989ISBN:0099446987
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780099446989ISBN:0099446987
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Harvill Press, London, UK
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780099446989ISBN:0099446987
Description: Very Good. 7" Tall. 421 pages. Moderate forward lean to book. Light wear to covers' corners and spine-ends, page-edges lightly yellowed o/w a very clean, tidy copy. read more
Binding: Soft Back
Publisher: Vintage, UK
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780099526629ISBN:009952662X
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A Kurt Wallander Mystery: Number 5. [1995] 504pp. The fifth in a series of critically acclaimed crime stories set in Ystad in Sweden. Midsummer approaches and Wallender is pursuing killers in the Skane countryside. 'Mankell's thrillers are an exceptional blend of sheer narrartive force with a compelling and humane portrait of a not always agreeable, not often lucky, crusader for justice. ' Has been read once-carefully. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780099526629ISBN:009952662X
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 512 pages. Midsummer approaches, and wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. but his summer is ruined when a girl commits suicide before his eyes, and a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Date Published: 19/04/2001
ISBN-13:9781860468377ISBN:1860468373
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Date Published: 19/04/2001
ISBN-13:9781860468377ISBN:1860468373
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Date Published: 19/10/2000
ISBN-13:9781860467639ISBN:1860467636
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Date Published: 19/04/2001
ISBN-13:9781860468377ISBN:1860468373
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2003-05-13
ISBN-13:9781400031566ISBN:1400031567
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Date Published: 19/10/2000
ISBN-13:9781860467639ISBN:1860467636
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781400031566ISBN:1400031567
Description: Good. Cover bent and slightly worn, good reading copy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780099535034ISBN:0099535033
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 512 pages. Midsummer approaches, and wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. but his summer is ruined when a girl commits suicide before his eyes, and a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. (Paperback) read more
"With each Henning Mankell novel, I think this will be my last, but "Sidetracked" is #5 and as with "The White Lioness," they just keep getting better. This one was the most suspenseful; pretty gripping reading, esp. considering that Mankell insists on providing the most mundane details of his hero's life -- doing the laundry, ironing, forgetting to get the car serviced, etc. And of course his continuing dismay at how Swedish society is changing (for the worse). I'm putting another volume of Mankell on my "to read" list."
"very engrossing mystery story that is also a slice of life in Sweden. If you are looking for an interesting story to occupy a lot of your time, this is a good one. its 504 pages and perhaps a bit long. I am also a big fan of the Wallander TV shows on BBC that are actually, slightly more interesting."
"Almost at the level of numbers two and three, the fifth of the Kurt Wallander series doesn't shift outward as those did (to Latvia and South Africa) but inward on Wallander as he is somewhat successful in overcoming his demons. To me, the villain seemed slightly improbable, but as Kurt keeps pointing out, it's an ugly world out there. Despite that, this one ends on a surprisingly hopeful note. Mankell is just the greatest. I started reading these as a stopgap while waiting for my hold on Stieg Larsson's second 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' at the library, but they are more than a stopgap and transcend genre. But watch out...they're really addictive."
"After seeing Kenneth Branagh as Wallander on PBS, I decided to make the series my summer reading. Seemed to make sense to read in chronological order, which was just about my undoing. The first three in the series were tediously written, overblown, and laced with uncomfortable shifts in narrative perspective. If our local library had copies in stock, I would have given up after book #2. Happily, it doesn't, so I had to get them shipped in from around the state, which meant I felt obliged to kept reading as I had put the library through all that work. I found that as Wallander ages Mankell's philosophical overeffort tones down, and the stories become exciting. Wallander isn't a hero one really roots for, and he doesn't have any cleaver skills or quirks that the reader is smugly privy too. But he feels pretty real, and the later mixes the right amount of action and reflection about the degrading state of modern Sweden.
If you're looking for police mysteries, Wallander is worth reading. I'd start with Sidetracked or The Man Who Smiled. If you like the series enough, then go back and read the first three."
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