One Step Behind
One Step Behind
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Summary
Midsummer's Eve, and three friends gather to perform a masque in a wood. A hidden watcher soon brings their performance to an end. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect. Three bullets, three corpses. The murderer then carefully photographs the grisly tableau. Inspector Wallander investigates.
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One Step Behind by Henning Mankell
It is Midsummer's Eve, three young friends gather in a wood. In the still-sunlit Scandanavian dusk, they don costumes joyfully to enact - or so it appears to an unseen observer - a kind of masque. The hidden watcher soon brings their performance to an end. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect. Three bullets, three corpses. The murderer then carefully photographs the grisly tableau. The Ystad police station meanwhile is experiencing a summer lull, indeed Inspector Wallander is at last at liberty to attend to - albeit reluctantly - his deteriorating health, but his peace of mind is shattered when one of his colleagues is murdered. An unknown killer, seen by no-one, is on the loose, and the police's only lead is a photograph of three dead young people in costume. Forced to dig more deeply than he would have wanted into the personal life of one of his colleagues, Wallander's investigation reveals something none of his team could ever have imagined. However, they remain tantalisingly, terrifyingly one step behind the lethal progress of a killer Wallander would have to suppose was deranged if his methods were not so meticulous and his victims so clinically targeted.
The real test of thrillers of this kind is whether you want to spend more time in the detective's companyI certainly do Sean French, Independent; Mankell is one of the most ingenious crime writers around, strong on characterisation, plotting and atmosphere. Highly recommended Peter Gutteridge, Observer
Henning Mankell was born in Stockholm in 1948. He is the author of nine novels in the Kurt Wallander series now astride the bestseller lists of Europe. Four of his novels are being filmed. He is Director of the Teatro Avenida in Maputo in Mozambique.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781860469831 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860469833 |
| Title | One Step Behind |
| Author | Henning Mankell |
| Series | Kurt Wallender Mystery S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2002-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |