| Sidetracked Contributor(s): Mankell, Henning (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400031567 ISBN-13: 9781400031566 Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - International Crime & Mystery - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural - Fiction | Thrillers - Crime |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002036008 |
| Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.12" W x 8.1" (0.72 lbs) 432 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the fifth riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander 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. |