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|reviewer=Sue Magee
|genre=Crime
|summary=This third book in theKurt the Kurt Wallander series is best read in sequence or you will know much of what happens. The plotting is excllent excellent and the characters and locations great but it is perhaps overlong.
|rating=3.5
|buy=Maybe
The problem was that I'd read subsequent books in the series. I knew exactly what had happened - or not happened - to the main fictional characters in the story. History clearly tells us what has become of the real people involved in the plot. I picked the book up expecting - as it says on the cover - ''a Wallander thriller'' and found that it really wasn't. In fact, I put the book down on a couple of occasions and read something else - which I had always thought would be next to impossible where any book by Mankell was concerned.
If you're reading the books in sequence then there would be more tension, but you might find the book over longoverlong. It's worth reading for completeness but I wouldn't rank the book as one of his best.
I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
It's worth starting the Kurt Wallander series at the beginning with [[Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell|Faceless Killers]]. For more from South Africa, we can recommend [[Water Music by Margie Orford]].
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