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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 839.7374 EAN: 9781400031566 ISBN: 1400031567 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 432 Publication Date: May 13, 2003 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: May 13, 2003 Studio: Vintage Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Not sure what the fuss is aboutFrankly, I just don't see it. There are two major problems with this book: the first is that you know who the killer is pretty much at the outset, and that drains most of the suspense from the book. That leads to the second problem: the police officer at the center of the novel is, it seems to me, not very good. He misses a lot of obvious stuff. Oddly, where the novel covers a lot of the everyday details of the man's life during the investigation (lack of sleep, spilling ink on his shirt), it ... Read More Rating: - A GOOD YARNThis was my first Mankell novel and I hope it won't be the last. It's exciting and well written. Although the identity of the killer becomes obvious early on, this doesn't dampen the suspense at all. Rating: - Thank you, LenLen, thank you for recommending that people begin with Mankell's first book and proceed from there. Too often, books are read out of order and in most cases, it doesn't work as well. I think, series, especially, should be read in order. Not only do you miss a lot of the characterization, but most writers get better as they go along. This is true here, with Henning Mankell. Also, there seems to be more than one translator, and that can also make a big difference. I'm really enjoying these books and ... Read More Rating:  - Not enough to sustain 400 pagesUnless I'm missing something major, I knew everything that was going to happen in this book by maybe 1/4 of the way through. There are no cliffhangers, no hair's-breadth escapes, no Sudden Realizations That The World Is A Far Blacker Place Than Anyone Previously Fathomed. It starts so promisingly. Inspector Kurt Wallander is called to a farmer's field where a girl has been standing all day. The farmer has tried to get her off his field all day, and finally he's called the cops. Wallander ... Read More Rating:  - Good But Not His Best Novel: 4 or 5 Stars, Spoiled By Too Many MurdersI thank fellow reviewer Leonard Fleisig for bringing this author to my attention. The writing is simply superb. I am very interested in reading more books by the Mankell. So far, I have bought and read six novels in the Wallander series. I thought that the novel was excellent up to a point. But then when the bloody and gruesome murders go on and on - and right to the end - it becomes a bit too much. For that reason I think that Faceless Killers or One Step Behind are his best novels. But ... Read More 
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