Description: In an Algerian convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are found with their throats slit. In Sweden, a birdwatcher is skewered to death in a pit of carefully sharpened bamboo poles. How are the deaths connected? It's up to Inspector Kurt Wallander to find out.
Review Quotes: "Exquisite. . . . Something to look forward to." ---Los Angeles Times Book Review
"A scary and cunning tale. . . . Here is a police procedural in which the main procedure is thought." --Rocky Mountain News "Achieves a deeply satisfying density of plot and characterization." --The Baltimore Sun "A marvelously told mystery. . . . You can't put it down, but you won't want to finish it either." --Austin American Statesman