Sidetracked: A Kurt Wallander Mystery (5) by Henning Mankell

By Henning Mankell

Fourth within the Kurt Wallander series.In the award-winning Sidetracked, Kurt Wallander is named to a close-by rapeseed box the place a teenage lady has been loitering all day lengthy. He arrives simply in time to monitor her douse herself in fuel and set herself aflame. the next day to come he's known as to a seashore the place Sweden’s former Minister of Justice has been axed to dying and scalped. The homicide has the most obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to discover him prior to he moves back. yet his research is beset with a handful of obstacles—a division distracted via the specter of imminent cutbacks and the frivolity of worldwide Cup football, a tenuous long-distance dating with a murdered policeman’s widow, and the unshakably haunting preoccupation with the younger lady who set herself on fireplace. interesting and astute, Sidetracked is a compelling secret more advantageous by way of willing social knowledge.

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He looked at it gloomily, knowing that it was the best that he could do. He motioned to the waitress, who came and refilled his cup. “Summer seems to be taking its time,” Wallander said to her. “Maybe it won’t get here at all,” replied the waitress. Apart from the difficulty of Björk’s speech, Wallander was in a good mood. He would be going on holiday in a few weeks. He had a lot to be happy about. It had been a long, gruelling winter. He knew that he was in great need of a rest. m. they gathered in the canteen of the station and Wallander made his speech to Björk.

He screamed and started to run, back towards the garden gate. He died the instant the edge of the axe severed his spine, just below the shoulder blades. And he knew no pain as the man, who was perhaps an animal, knelt down and slit an opening in his forehead and then with one violent wrench ripped most of the scalp from his skull. It was a little after midnight. It was Tuesday, 21 June. The motor of a moped started up somewhere nearby, and moments later died away. Everything was once again very still.

The kerosene lamp had gone out. He lay completely still. The night was very warm. He smelt of sweat. It had been a long time since he had last managed to wash. He got up cautiously from the earthen floor and groped for the plastic jug of kerosene over by the door. It must have rained while he had slept. The floor was damp under his feet. Off in the distance he heard a rooster crow. Ramirez’s rooster. It was always the first in the village to crow, before dawn. That rooster was like an impatient person.

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