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Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby 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.
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Sidetracked, Henning Mankell
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- Released
- 2008
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- Title
- Sidetracked
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Henning Mankell
- Publisher
- Random House
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 504
- ISBN10
- 009952662X
- ISBN13
- 9780099526629
- Series
- Kurt Wallander
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Thriller, Detective Fiction, Adapted for Film, Scandinavian Literature, Sweden, Nordic Noir, Swedish literature, Adapted into Series, Swedish detective stories
- First published
- 1995
- Original title
- Villospår
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby 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.