Sidetracked
By: Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray
Contributors: Murray, Steven T.
Series: A Kurt Wallander mystery
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780099526629
Subjects: Kurt Wallander (Fictitious character); Fiction; Police; Detective and mystery stories; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Thriller / suspense; FICTION / Crime; FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
Work titles: Villospår
Description: Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden's former Minister of Justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation is beset with a handful of obstacles--a department distracted by the threat of impending cutbacks and the frivolity of World Cup soccer, a tenuous long-distance relationship with a murdered policeman's widow, and the unshakably haunting preoccupation with the young girl who set herself on fire.
Notes: TV tie-in.

This translation from the Swedish was originally published: London : Harvill, 2000.

Translation of: Villospår.