Pre-Owned Sidetracked: Weekly Readings to Open Your Heart and Mind (Hardcover) by Henning Mankell, Steven T Murray

from bookczuk

In which there is an ax-murderer -- the stuff of horror stories. I thought this Wallander particularly good, as it showed aspects of investigation and the criminal mind that often are glossed over on those ever famous TV shows. Someone's committing horrific murders, but because Mankell takes the ...

from Lman

It is summer and the thoughts of the police in Ystad are turning to their holidays when Kurt Wallander is called to an ostensibly harmless trespass by a young girl in a rapeseed field (important as it symbolises Skåne for the time of year). Before his shocked eyes she suicides horrifically and as...

from Lettypearl

Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the deaths of 4 men in Ystad, Sweden, and it doesn't take long to figure out that there is a serial killer on the loose who thinks he is channeling Geronimo, complete with scalpings. Kurt Wallander is a great character, though not as deep nor as flawed as Jo ...

from rainpebble

Sidetracked by Henning Mankell; (4*) Kurt Wallander, the melancholy detective in Henning Mankell's Swedish police procedurals, takes it personally when a crime is committed on his turf. In Sidetracked the work of a serial killer who takes the lives of his victims with an ax and takes their scalps...

from JBreedlove

The only thing outgrageous was the killer and they usually are. Otherwise it was driven by the dogged approach of Wallendar w not too much personal stuff getting in the way. Very well written. If the kid and the girl would hsve goten away at the end it would have made a great Swedish ending. Forg...