![]() ![]() He had been working unofficially and in secret on the disappearance. ![]() Then one of the police detective Kurt Wallander's colleagues, Svedberg, is found brutally murdered. ![]() They are believed to be traveling, as their parents receive postcards from points in Europe, but one mother is convinced they are forged and it's not her daughter's handwriting. A group of college-age kids disappears in early summer. But I can forgive these miscues because this one is just so cracking good most of the way. The love for serial killers obviously reached Sweden in the '90s too. At first I thought this was going to be a mass murder variation, but no, in due course it turns out to be another serial killer. That has already been used at least twice before in the series ( One Step Behind is seventh of 12). Another repetition: the most heinous crimes ever seen in the region. It relies on some shaky premises but the case remains intriguingly mysterious for a long time. It's a thriller series more than police procedural let alone hardboiled detective so action-packed scenes are inevitable. ![]() Some of the devices may be growing somewhat threadbare-another climax with Wallander in grave mortal peril, more health problems, brooding attacks of doubt, new friends. Here's another really good one from the Kurt Wallander series by Henning Mankell. ![]()
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