His doctor has told him he eats and drinks too much and doesn’t get enough exercise. To top that all off, he has just been diagnosed with diabetes. His father has died, his ex-wife is getting remarried, and his girlfriend has left him. Wallander is a middle-aged man who has lost his zest for life. In One Step Behind, Hanning Mankell draws an entirely plausible hero in the form of Kurt Wallander. Wallander is left one step behind, trying to find out. Is it possible that Wallander has a serial killer on his hands? What did Svedberg know? Kurt Wallander begins to suspect that his colleague Svedberg had been investigating the disappearance of the three teenagers on his own time, without leaving an official record. A couple of walkers discover their bodies six weeks after they disappeared, each with a gunshot wound to the head. They had had a midsummer’s eve party and hadn’t been seen since. He is lying dead on the carpet with his brains blown out.Ī few weeks earlier, three teenagers’ parents reported them missing. When Karl Svedberg doesn’t show up for work at the Ystad police station, his colleagues are surprised, and concern spreads until Inspector Kurt Wallander visits his home to check he is OK.
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