Mankell peels away Wallander’s layers the decay of his private life starkly contrasting with his dogged determination to solve the crime. The culprit proves elusive but the pace is electric. Recently and reluctantly separated from his wife and daughter, Kurt Wallander loses himself in whisky and opera, snatching fitful hours of sleep and guilt-ridden fast food while working this perplexing and shocking case: an elderly farmer tortured to death his wife barely alive by his side. When Patti Smith writes: ‘I felt a kinship with this slightly alcoholic, melancholic police detective’ in her introduction, she speaks of Mankell’s skilful crafting of his empathetic protagonist.
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