Kurt Wallander is the lead character in the Kurt Wallander series of novels created by Swedish crime author Henning Georg Mankell. Mankell published the first novel in the series Faceless Killers in 1991 before he went on to publish nine more titles culminating in the 2010 published The Troubled Man.
Kurt Wallander is a small town detective working in the coastal town of Ystad in Sweden. He is a very dedicated cop who has a knack for getting the smallest but most important of details from any crime scene. His peculiar gift typically leads him into the making of unconscious observations that come back to him just in time to solve homicide cases. He is a peevish and irritable police officer who hates office politics preferring a glass of wine …show more content…
One Step Behind the seventh novel in the series is a fan favorite that is set in Midsummer’s Eve. Three young friends rendezvous in the forest to play out an intricate masquerade. Out of nowhere, the three are shot each with a single bullet. The killing of one of Inspector Wallander’s colleagues soon follows the tragic murders of the three murders. Wallander takes up the investigation determined to establish if there is any connection between the murders. However, this time he is always one-step behind, tantalizingly close, but not close enough.
Sidetracked is the compelling fifth mystery in the series that opens to a teenage girl commit suicide by setting herself on fire. Before Wallander can bring himself to terms with the suicide, he is called to the scene of the murder of a former minister of Justice that had been scalped and hacked to death on a beach. While he knows he can resolve the murder case given time, several obstacles stand in his path. Some of these include a tenuous long distance relationship, frivolity of the world cup tournament, and the impending cutbacks in his
Kurt Wallander is a small town detective working in the coastal town of Ystad in Sweden. He is a very dedicated cop who has a knack for getting the smallest but most important of details from any crime scene. His peculiar gift typically leads him into the making of unconscious observations that come back to him just in time to solve homicide cases. He is a peevish and irritable police officer who hates office politics preferring a glass of wine …show more content…
One Step Behind the seventh novel in the series is a fan favorite that is set in Midsummer’s Eve. Three young friends rendezvous in the forest to play out an intricate masquerade. Out of nowhere, the three are shot each with a single bullet. The killing of one of Inspector Wallander’s colleagues soon follows the tragic murders of the three murders. Wallander takes up the investigation determined to establish if there is any connection between the murders. However, this time he is always one-step behind, tantalizingly close, but not close enough.
Sidetracked is the compelling fifth mystery in the series that opens to a teenage girl commit suicide by setting herself on fire. Before Wallander can bring himself to terms with the suicide, he is called to the scene of the murder of a former minister of Justice that had been scalped and hacked to death on a beach. While he knows he can resolve the murder case given time, several obstacles stand in his path. Some of these include a tenuous long distance relationship, frivolity of the world cup tournament, and the impending cutbacks in his