![]() ![]() ![]() His long-suffering team bares the brunt of this exhaustion and they, like the reader, are regularly horrified and startled throughout. We see him at his infatuated best – picking through tiny details and slowly forming a complete picture. Ignoring the recommendations of his doctor on account of one of the victims being a friend and colleague discovered dead by the detective at his flat, Wallander becomes obsessed with the cases, to the detriment of his health and mental well-being. In between, Wallander pieces together three seemingly unrelated crimes in a pounding turn of events that never leaves us pause for breath. It closes with a reflection, by Wallander, on nature’s more bestial qualities and those it shares with man. Mankell’s seventh Wallander opens with a chilling description of the hunt and abrupt execution of three innocent people in a nature reserve by a stalking murderer. And for this Mankell fans hold a particular affection for it. What it lacks in pace and popular verve, it more than makes up for through Mankell’s painstaking attention to detail. For our money, though, it represents both Mankell and Kurt Wallander at their absolute peak. Written by Henning Mankell - One Step Behind is not Mankell’s most famous nor most commercially successful Wallander novel. ![]()
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