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Title: One Step Behind by Henning Mankell ISBN: 1-4000-3151-6 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Unwashed Detective
Comment: Kurt is always talking about going home to change his shirt but he never takes a shower. Is he a Swedish detective or French? He is depressing and the fact that he never calls in for assistance is unrealistic in this day and age yet these books are better than the Per Wahloo and Maj Sjovall? books of many years ago
Rating: 3
Summary: OK but a little disappointing
Comment: This is extremely readable stuff but perhaps a little lazy. If like me, you come to it after reading "Sidetracked" it's hard not to be struck by its being a bit, well, the same. Here we are again with a series of bizarre and senseless killings performed by someone decidedly not right in his head. Once again we get things from the murderer's perspective but in such a way that his full identity only becomes apparent slowly and a sense of mystery is preserved as Wallander and his colleagues relentlessly track him down. Once again - and here the deja vu encompasses "White Lioness" as well as "Sidetracked" - Mankell adds a little climactic tension by having the killer decide it would be a good idea to add Wallander himself to his list of victims but, even more than in these earlier books, his reason for doing so is left so murky and unclear that it just comes over as a rather unconvincing - and by now badly overused - contrivance to generate suspense. Then there are a couple of odd features of the killings that intrigue the reader and keep her turning the pages only for the rather diappointing denoument to offer no explanation for them at all beyond, hey, "Hey, he's a nutcase, what he does isn't supposed to make sense." Perhaps that's fair enough but it does seem something of a cop-out on Mankell's part.
Don't be too badly put off. I seem to be in a fault-finding mood today. If, like me, you liked the earlier Wallender books, chances are, like me, you'll enjoy this one too. But here's betting that, like me, you think it far from his best.
Rating: 5
Summary: deserves 10 stars or more
Comment: I had two books on a short trip this weekend and had to choose between Michael Connelly [a personal favorite] and this unknown writer whose book I just picked up by chance.I chose this book over the latest Connelly;after the first two pages I just couldn't put it down. The hero, Kurt Wallender, is like Harry Bosch but, if you can believe it, even more realsitically detailed. The plot literally grinds away at you --for me, I found the suspense at times almost intolerable. It took awhile to get used to the Swedish names and locales but within a few hours I was completely hooked to the point that I got up this morning at 4:00 AM unable to sleep due to the intricacies of the plot and my tie to the characters. This is just a smashing thriller superior to anything I have read by Connelly, James Lee Burke or Michael Malone, my favorites.
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Title: Sidetracked by Henning Mankell ISBN: 1400031567 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell ISBN: 1400031575 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Firewall by Henning Mankell ISBN: 1400031532 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The White Lioness by Henning Mankell ISBN: 1400031559 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Dogs of Riga: A Kurt Wallendar Mystery by Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson ISBN: 1565847873 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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