![]() I've got to say that I was pretty disappointed with this volume. The reaction to them was well portrayed and an exception to the lifeless backdrop.Īfter watching the BBC series with Kenneth Branagh, I thought I'd better read the book it was based on, not least to see how the inevitable compromises between written and visual texts were accommodated. I had no idea such issues existed in Sweden then. The portrayal of illegal immigrants in Sweden that number of years ago was interesting. For example "a seabird flew past" - without further elaboration the information does nothing. There was local colour, but a lot of the description did not seem to add much to the picture. If he ate a meal then you could be sure a stomach upset was to follow. Outside his police work, everything he touched was a disaster. Apart from the main charcater Wallender, everyone else seemed wooden. There would not be a sentence anywhere in the book which reaches the complexity of normal written English. I am not expecting Jane Austen and maybe it loses in translation, but I found the sentences simply were not a pleasure to read. The crime fiction bit was fine but I found everything else rather ponderous. I had heard that this was superior crime fiction so gave a try to a genre I don't normally read. Louis Post-Dispatchįrom the Trade Paperback edition. ![]() " "An exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth and suspense." - Los Angeles Times "An especially satisfying crime novel, like those of such past masters as Georges Simenon, Nicholas Freeling, and Sweden's own Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo." - The Wall Street Journal "Intelligent, moving and topical, this is a thriller of the very best kind." - The Times (London) "A well-crafted police procedural, the story moves along at a brisk pace and comes to an exciting climax." - St. The Times (London) A well-crafted police procedural, the story moves along at a brisk pace and comes to an exciting climax. The Wall Street Journal Intelligent, moving and topical, this is a thriller of the very best kind. Los Angeles Times An especially satisfying crime novel, like those of such past masters as Georges Simenon, Nicholas Freeling, and Sweden's own Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve.Īn exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth and suspense. Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has peaked his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. ![]() And as if this didn't present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman's last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have-and in the process, the match that could inflame Sweden's already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments. It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the first riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, the basis for the PBS series staring Kenneth Branagh.
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