by Henning Mankell, Dick Hill
My first brush with Mankell and Wallander wasn’t as exciting as I would have liked it to, or as I was lead to believe it would be. There was nothing wrong with the book; neither was there anything out of the world, or special about the book. It was just another Scandi crime thriller with some gore, ...
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 Ju...
This is an excellent Wallender book, very carefully and intricately constructed. That the book works so well is quite a feat since there is no mystery as to who the murderer is. Mankell avoids melodrama, even when the opportunity offered itself, and continues to develop and deepen several key charac...
I had accidently seen the Masterpiece Mystery version of this book prior to reading it and absolutely loved it. I was thrilled when the book was just as good as the movie version. With HM books/Masterpiece Mystery, frequently I prefer the movies to the book.
After read most of Wallander's mysteries I still can say this is my favorite of all them. :)
Dark, moody and totally brilliant
Yes, I went ahead and ran thru the next one in my Henning Mankell titles. It was dark, disturbing and an incredible read. I stayed with it well after midnight because I couldn't put it down. Really, really good dark mystery novel. Wallander gets more and more interesting with each book. Next title i...
i very much enjoy the police procedural...in fact, it'd be safe to say they are probably my favorite books. i try hard not to read one after the other. however, the ending of sidetracked packed such a wallop that was creepy, outrageous (in a good way) and sad all at the same time, and i don't thin...
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