“Combines thriller-quality entertainment with a depiction of antiforeigner prejudice in Sweden, painted here as a very chilly place indeed.” - Publishers Weekly “A well-crafted police procedural…The story moves along at a brisk pace and comes to an exciting climax.” - St. “An exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth and suspense.” - Los Angeles Times “Intelligent, moving and topical, this is a thriller of the very best kind.” - Times (London) “Inspector Wallander has established himself as one of the best of recent detectives…Tightly plotted.” - Times Literary Supplement (London) “An especially satisfying crime novel, like those of such past masters as Georges Simenon, Nicholas Freeling, and Sweden’s own Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö.” - Wall Street Journal You can't help liking Wallandar, feeling sorry for him and yet sometimes his awkwardness is too painful to witness." Wallandar is a complicated man - desperately lonely, with fractured ties to his closest family, yet he's gifted at digging the truth out of reluctant witnesses and suspects. These take place in Sweden and are filled with descriptions of daily life there. This is the first in the series of books featuring Kurt Wallandar. "Great example of one of my favorite genres - police procedurals. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes-though it will require all of his talent to do so. In this case, unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the young prosecutor who has piqued his interest, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. As if this didn’t present enough problems for Ystad police inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word, his only tangible clue, was “foreign.” If publicized, it could be the match that would inflame Sweden’s already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments. On a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer was bludgeoned to death, his wife left to die with a noose around her neck.
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