He is the sort of man who asks each morning whether life has a purpose-not his life, but life in general. Yet he is shy and longs for a woman who will understand him. Middle-aged and divorced from his wife Mona (which he still regrets), Wallander lives the familiar life of a solitary detective. The over-tired policeman’s health is less than perfect given his preference for fast food, coffee, alcohol, and little sleep. Kurt Wallander, Henning Mankell’s Swedish police commissioner from the small town of Ystad, is a perfect example. Rather, they seem to echo the sense of overwhelming chaos that has come with the quickening modernization of our world.
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The average American hard-boiled detective is as well known for busting wise-guys as he is for muttering wise-cracks, but Europe’s most recent hard-boiled incarnations are not so full of bravado. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve. Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has peaked his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. And as if this didn’t present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have–and in the process, the match that could inflame Sweden’s already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments.
It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck.
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