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|date=September 2002
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In Africa, four nuns and a Swedish woman who was staying with them are savagely murdered. When the visitor's daughter hears about this she gives herself a year to grieve and then sets about extracting her revenge.
The translation of the book has been done by Steven T Murray, who has also translated two other Wallander novels into English. I'm unable to compare it with the work in the original Swedish, but the text reads well and has none of the clunkiness which translations so often have.
If you're a fan of Kurt Wallander or Henning Mankell, or you'd like to find out more about them, you might like to have a look at [http://www.inspector-wallander.org/index.html this website] where you'll find information about Mankell, Wallander and the books. You m ight also enjoy [[The Swimmer by Joakim Zander]].
The book is recommended both to buy and to borrow.
{{amazontext|amazon=0099445212}} {{waterstonestextamazonUStext|waterstonesamazon=43122770099445212}} [[Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander Novels in Chronological Order]]
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