Description: On Midsummer's Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in 18th-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Wallander's most trusted colleagues--someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime--also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related, even though he can't imagine how.
Review Quotes: "Lyrical, meticulous, and stunningly suspenseful." -St. Petersburg Times
"Typical of the dense, intricate intelligence that Mankell brings to detection and crime writing." -The Washington Post Book World "Satisfying in a way that has less to do with the wonders of forensic science than with the pure pleasure of rational thought." -The New York Times "It is not hard to see why the Wallander books have made a particular impact." --Times Literary Supplement