Innan Frosten

Paperback, 501 pages

Swedish language

Published Jan. 22, 2004 by Leopard förlag.

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978-91-7343-037-1
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Des animaux immolés par le feu, la tête et les mains d'une femme gisant près d'une bible aux pages griffonnées... Le commissaire Wallander est inquiet. Ces actes seraient-ils un prélude à des sacrifices humains de plus vaste envergure ? La propre fille de Wallander, impatiente d'entrer dans la police, se lance dans une enquête parallèle. Entraînée vers une secte fanatique résolue à punir le monde de ses péchés, elle va rapidement le regretter. [payot.ch]

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Detective Kurt Wallander's daughter Linda is about to join him on the police force in the town of Ystad in southern Sweden, and while she is waiting to start work Linda re-establishes contact with a couple of old school friends, Anna and Zeba. Then Anna says she thiinks she has seen her father, who had been missing for many years, and shortly afterwards goes missing herself. Linda begins searching for Anna, and thinks her disappearance may be linked to a case her father is working on, of animals that have been cruelly killed and then a murder, that seems to be linked to a religious motive.

Until about halfway through, I thought that this was the best book Henning Mankell had written. The point of view has shifted to Linda Wallander, and we see her father through her eyes, rather than his own rather jaundiced view of the world, and …

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