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 Sidetracked - Henning Mankell
Newest Review: ... 1994. Inspector Kurt Wallander is called to a farm where a young girl has been loitering all day. Wallander goes out to the ... more  ... rape seed field where she is. She is scared of him and pours petrol over herself and then sets herself on fire.
‘Paralysed, he watched her lurch around the field, as the fire sizzled and blazed over her body’
A shaken Wallander calls in the rest of his police team. They don’t know who she is or what she was frightened of. Why would a young girl want to take her life in such a horrific way?
Once the fire is out they find the body of the girl. All her hair, face and clothes have been burnt off. They find a gold necklac...more |
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Sidetracked - Henning Mankell: The Swedish Scalper (739 words)
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Henning Mankell was born in Sweden in 1948. His first novel was published in 1973. His books have been translated into 19 languages and have generated numerous international film and television adaptations. He has currently written 8 Inspector Wallander mysteries. The award winning Sidetracked is the third to be printed in the UK. It was first published as Villospar in 1995. It was then translated by Steve T Murray in 1999 and first published in the UK in 2000. In the original order it is the fifth in the series. Faceless Killers is the first in the series. The Prologue is set in the Dominican Republic in 1978. It tells us about Pedro Santana. He has just lost ... Read the complete review
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