![]() ![]() ![]() Dark and moody, this is crime fiction of the highest order. The chief suspect-a powerful, globe-trotting Swedish businessman who's the smiling man of the title-leads Wallender on an exquisitely plotted search for motive and evidence. Gustaf Torstensson gets out of the car to investigate, is hit from behind and was "dead before his body hit the damp asphalt." The police accept the assailant's claim that it was an accident, but when Torstensson's son, Sten, is shot dead just two weeks later, the brooding Wallender, who's on sick leave and vowing to retire from the Ystad police force, decides to pursue the killer and resume his career. These deeply puzzling mysteries compel Wallander to remain on the force. Within a week the lawyer’s son is also killed. , etc.): a lawyer, driving home through the fog, stops after he sees "a human-sized effigy" propped on a chair in the middle of a deserted highway. The lawyer is hit over the head and dies. First published in Sweden in 1994, Mankell's terrific fourth Kurt Wallender mystery opens with the kind of startling image typical of this internationally bestselling series ( Firewall ![]()
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