Description: A teenage girl self-immolates, the former Minister of Justice is murdered and scalped, and suddenly Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself searching for Sweden's first serial killer.
Review Quotes: "Presents Mankell at his best...if you haven't bought Sidetracked, do so ASAP" --Los Angeles Times Book Review
"[I]t is Wallander's voice . . . that captures us." --New York Times Book Review
"Mankell joins the worthy ranks of such past masters as Georges Simenon [and] Nicholas Freeling." --The Wall Street Journal