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Firewall (Kurt Wallander #8)

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Ystad, Sweden, fall 1997. Two teenage girls brutally murder a taxi driver. Although they are quickly apprehended, one of them escapes police custody and disappears without a trace. A few days later, a man stops at an ATM during his evening walk and suddenly falls dead to the ground. Shortly thereafter, a blackout cuts power to a large swath of southern Sweden. When a servi...more

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Published November 7th 2002 by New Press, LLC (first published January 1st 1998)

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Aug 14, 2008 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: fans of chewy reads that take time

Recommended to Jennifer by: a large % of CLC's Biology Department

With each Kurt Wallander mystery I read, I'm more and more impressed with Mankell's ability to create a Swedish police procedural that pulls you in--no matter how dense the "procedural" aspects of the case are. Like the first book I read (Faceless Killers), this is no thriller with aspirations for movie-dom (you know the ones) though there are suspenseful moments. Instead, this is a layered, complex telling of two seemingly unrelated cases and how Wallander and his team slowly tease out the conn...more

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Jun 01, 2012 Teresa Lukey rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: i-learned-something, kept-me-wondering, 4-stars

There is no doubt that the Scandinavian crime novels I have read thus far fail to disappoint. After reading Stieg Larsson and now my first Henning Mankell, either the Swed's are really creative in creating some really messed up situations or Sweden is a pretty messed up place to live.

This crime is relatively twisted and complex, but I didn't find the ending as exciting as other crime novels, hence the 4 star rating.

The investigator at the forefront of the story is Kurt Wallander, which I found...more

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Dec 14, 2008 Reinhold rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime

Brandmauer = Firewall :)

Dies ist der Abschluss der Wallanderreihe, wenngleich nicht das letzte Buch, da es noch die Kurzgeschichten in "Wallanders erster Fall" gibt. Zur Geschichte: Zwei Teenie-Girls ermorden einen Taxifahrer und geben als sie gefasst werden an, es wäre wegen des Geldes gewesen. Ein Computerfachmann wird tot vor einem Geldautomaten gefunden und wenngleich es so scheint als wäre es ein natürlicher Tod gewesen verdichten sich die Hinweise, dass irgend etwas ganz und gar nicht stim...more Brandmauer = Firewall :)

Dies ist der Abschluss der Wallanderreihe, wenngleich nicht das letzte Buch, da es noch die Kurzgeschichten in "Wallanders erster Fall" gibt. Zur Geschichte: Zwei Teenie-Girls ermorden einen Taxifahrer und geben als sie gefasst werden an, es wäre wegen des Geldes gewesen. Ein Computerfachmann wird tot vor einem Geldautomaten gefunden und wenngleich es so scheint als wäre es ein natürlicher Tod gewesen verdichten sich die Hinweise, dass irgend etwas ganz und gar nicht stimmt. Bald darauf gibt es schon den dritten Todesfall, eines der Mädchen kann aus der Haft flüchten und wird kurz darauf in einem Umspannwerk gefunden, man hat mit ihrem Körper das Umspannwerk lahmgelegt und halb Schonen in Finsternis getaucht. Irgendwie vermutet die Ystader Polizei, dass diese Fälle alle zusammenhängen, und bei weiteren Nachforschungen stellt sich der tote Computerspezialist als Zentrum heraus. Wallander setzt sich wieder einmal über die Vorschriften hinweg und beauftragt einen erst kürzlich aus der Haft entlassenen Hacker mit der Aufgabe, in den Rechner des Toten einzudringen. Langsam aber sicher verdichten sich die Hinweise, dass hier der ganz große Coup geplant ist. Ein virtueller Anschlag auf die Finanzzentren der Welt, der den Kapitalismus in den Untergang stürzen soll.

Noch besser als in den vorhergehenden Romanen wird Wallander in seiner Schwäche und in seiner Stärke dargestellt. Das Bild des alternden Kommissars ist noch facettenreicher geworden, nicht mehr bloß der trübsinnige Polizist, sondern ein Mensch in seiner ganzen (Un)Tiefe.

Wieder einmal steigt der schwedische Schriftsteller auf die Barrikaden und zeichnet ein brutales Bild der Gesellschaft. "Keiner für alle und jeder für sich", dahin entwickelt sich die Welt, lautet die Anklage die Mankell seit Jahr und Tag predigt. Die Gesellschaft entfremdet sich, jeder ist damit befasst seine Schäfchen ins Trockene zu bringen. Fast möchte man sagen, "wie üblich" ist dieser Roman viel mehr als "bloß" ein Krimi. Es ist gekonnt verpackte Gesellschaftskritik. Doch so kommt sie besser an - Nestroy musste sich so vor der Zensur des Staates verstecken, Mankell versteckt sich so vor der Zensur des Marktes - und verbreitet derart verpackt seine These millionenfach.

Zum Sprachlichen: Im Verlauf der Wallanderreihe ist eine deutliche sprachliche Entwicklung in Mankells Erzählstil zu bemerken, wodurch Mankells wunderbare Erzählstimme zu noch besserer Geltung kommt. Abgesehen vom dämlichen Titel, der den auch im Deutschen so verwendeten Begriff Firewall ins Deutsche übersetzt und damit unverständlich macht, ist auch dem Übersetzer eine gute Leistung gelungen. (less)

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Jul 26, 2012 Keith Willcock rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As inspector Wallander sets out to track a sequence o seemingly unrelated murders we are invited to follow his logic as he links one detail with the next until the Who Done It puzzle is complete.

At the same time that all of this is going on we are given a pretty intense view of the workings of our hero's mind. A lonely and somewhat depressed man, he struggles to break out of his isolation and form some meaningful intimate relationship with persons of the opposite sex. As such affairs often do wh...more

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Jan 13, 2012 Eva Lorenz rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I first got exposed to Wallander and Mankell through the PBS mystery series and got immediately hooked because I used to gobble up books by Sjoewall and Wahloo. Let me say upfront, if you like realistic, modern crime drama that does not paint routine policy work as a series of great inspirations and glorified thoughts, these books are definitely for you.
The story is not idealized, it shows the police as human beings, flawed to the core, struggling with everyday problems of their own and drudging...more

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Sep 09, 2011 Betty rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: arlington-library, mystery

Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appall local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events mus...more

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Jan 22, 2010 Martha rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: scandinavian-mysteries, good-for-an-airplane-trip

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Jan 09, 2010 Tony rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-crime-detection

Mankell, Henning. FIREWALL. (1998). *****. Mankell places his Inspector Kurt Wallander right in the middle of a series of events that turns out to be more than the sum of its parts. It all starts out when a man falls over dead in front of an ATM unit near his home. The death was pronounced the result of natural causes. Next, two young girls send for a taxi from a bar. After they are in it, they kill the driver using a hammer and a knife. They are quickly rounded up and held at the main station,...more Mankell, Henning. FIREWALL. (1998). *****. Mankell places his Inspector Kurt Wallander right in the middle of a series of events that turns out to be more than the sum of its parts. It all starts out when a man falls over dead in front of an ATM unit near his home. The death was pronounced the result of natural causes. Next, two young girls send for a taxi from a bar. After they are in it, they kill the driver using a hammer and a knife. They are quickly rounded up and held at the main station, but the older girl, taking advantage of a lapse in security, walks out of the station and disappears. Her body is later found inside of a power sub-station, burned to a crisp – the cause of a severe blackout in large regions of Sweden. Wallander and his crew, following up on all of these events, are led to the discovery of a master plan that is intended to wreak havoc on all of the world’s major financial instutions, but the master plan is so well protected through the use of firewalls and clever encoding mechanisms that they cannot actually find out what the critical event will be or when it will occur. Wallander is thrown upon the necessary intelligence and savvy of a computer geek – and formerly convicted hacker – to help him make sense out of the impending cyberspace terror. What makes matters worse is that the leaders of this plot throw out clues intended to mislead Wallander and his men and go down the wrong pathways for long periods of time only to learn that their time and effort has been wasted. On top of all this professional activity, Wallander is faced with his own personal problems: he is still without a woman and lonely; he discovers that a once trusted colleague within his department is undermining his authority and credibility with other members of the team. The most cheerful part of this thriller is that it doesn’t occur in mid-winter when the snow is many feet high, but in the fall when all the Swedes have to contend with are the random blackouts caused by impenetrable fogs. This is likely the best thriller I have read so far from this author. Highly recommended.(less)

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Jan 02, 2010 Nancy Oakes rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: scandinavian-crime-fiction-and-myst

Number eight in the Wallander series (which, personally, I hope Mankell never stops writing),

It's a year after the events of the previous book (One Step Behind), and the story opens with the death of a computer consultant just after making a withdrawal from his ATM. As the team begins its investigation into his death, two young girls in a taxi beat and stab the driver to death. The girls are arrested, and claim they killed the driver for the money, which as it turns out, wasn't very much for th...more

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Jul 04, 2007 Writerlibrarian rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read2006, mystery, march-pile

This is the last novel featuring Kurt Wallander as the main character. Mankell has written another book but with Linda Wallander as the lead character. In this last novel, we follow Wallander has he battles a group determined to bring new order to the world through chaos. Homicidal teenagers, back stabbing coworker, all the while battling his own loneliness and despair. Again a very tight plot where the moods and emotional health of the character are what makes you read along.

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Jan 20, 2013 Mike rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Now that I've read two Henning Mankell books featuring the Swedish detective Kurt Wallander, I'm hooked. This four hundred page book seems like half that--it flew by and I could hardly put it down. Although this series is mostly over ten years old, the writing is dark and fascinating.

It's so unlike CSI or any of the other glam American detective shows because police and detective work is shown to be so dark, tiring and depressing, and yet the plot continually moves forward with new twists.

The un...more

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Feb 29, 2012 Luke rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another too-long Wallander mystery, but too long isn't a bad thing at all. It's procedure, procedure, they say the same thing 50 times, and after a while you realize how boring investigating disgusting murders might really be.

It's still refreshing, even after reading 7 other Wallander books, when characters in crime novels have real, mundane concerns and find themselves unable to explain or deal with life's basic miseries. Not to mention the horrible crimes plaguing the little Swedish town.

Com...more

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Feb 22, 2010 F.R. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Gripping, well-plotted, smart and gloomy. This is my first Wallander and, although I will read the others, that last adjective means I wouldn’t want to line up a number of these books back to back. I think that wouldn’t be good for one’s mental well-being.

Two seemingly unconnected crimes have far reaching consequences and things get more confusing as the bodies pile up. For the most part this is a compulsive thriller that keeps the reader constantly on edge, but as the plot moves forward maybe s...more

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Nov 28, 2011 bookczuk rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, borrowed, not-a-cozy-mystery-more-a-thriller, nordic-break-out-the-herring, thank-you-charleston-county-library

It's been a while since I read a Wallander, though I've read the start of the series that features Wallander's daughter, Linda. This was my first Wallander as an audio book, and the first thing javaczuk and I noticed was that we've been saying the name wrong -- we got the initial sound right, but it was more a matter of putting the accent on the wrong syllable. But, I'm teachable, if nothing else, and I now say it correctly (or at least as the audio book did) 90% of the time.

Once again, Mankell...more

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Jul 30, 2012 Michael rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, mystery, thriller, police-procedural, sweden

Satisfying police procedural featuring detective Kurt Wallander in rural Sweden. This is the 8th in a series of 11 and my first experience with the author. A case of two teen aged girls who brutally murder a cab driver and confess with no remorse that it was simply for money leads Wallender to look closer. Another case of a computer consultant dying of apparent natural causes at a cash machine provides an early hint that he was planning something socially disruptive. From this slow start, Wallen...more

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Jul 24, 2012 Marsha rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery

I love Kurt Wallendar. He's such a sandwich-eating, conflicted, self-doubting yet excellent detective. Sometimes I think he solves cases in spite of himself. In this book, he nearly got killed three times and managed to pull through to save the day. His lack of understanding when it comes to technology - and women - astounds me but I still find him to be very appealing and am sad that FIREWALL is the end of the Wallendar that I've come to know and love. I wish the book had ended with him finding...more

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May 10, 2013 Brad rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: wallander, swedish-lit, police-procedural

This book made me feel sick to my stomach. Not because it was too gory or because what was written disagreed with me in a philosophical way, but because I have grown to care about Kurt Wallander over the eight books I've read -- maybe even seeing a bit of myself in him -- and it's in this book that he is most under siege, and that feeling of being under attack was the feeling that made me feel ill.

His protege, Martinsson, the man he trained in the way his mentor Ryberg trained him, the man he k...more This book made me feel sick to my stomach. Not because it was too gory or because what was written disagreed with me in a philosophical way, but because I have grown to care about Kurt Wallander over the eight books I've read -- maybe even seeing a bit of myself in him -- and it's in this book that he is most under siege, and that feeling of being under attack was the feeling that made me feel ill.

His protege, Martinsson, the man he trained in the way his mentor Ryberg trained him, the man he kept in the police force when he was about to quit, the man he most trusted, has been quietly out to get him, undermining him with the police chief, the prosecutor's office, and his other colleagues.

His love life is a shambles, and when he finally sees a glimmer of hope it turns out to be an illusion designed to use him.

His personal relationships are all amok. His daugther is distant; his father is dead; his step-mother is playing at guilt; he can't see the one person closest to him for her closeness, so he keeps pushing her away (or, at least, maintaining his distance); he's even losing people he counted on without knowing it and finding it impossible to connect with the new people that are coming in to take their place.

And each of these bits and piece of Wallander's character made me physically ill. I've been where he's at (I may even be where he's at to some extent), and when all of those personal issues were coupled with real physical danger as a result of the case he was solving, I found myself reacting as if I could be a voice in his head, screaming advice, willing him to make positive decisions, begging him to stand up for himself.

It was an uncomfortable mirror for me, really, and it did its job of building and maintaining tension better than any other Wallander book I've read. It's entirely possible that this tension only works if someone connects with Wallander as I did, but it is there to be found if you are lucky enough (or unlucky enough) to make that connection.(less)

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Sep 08, 2012 Steve rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

1. Firewall. # 8 in the series by Henning Mankell featuring Kurt Wallander. Wallander and team investigate several seemingly unrelated deaths. Poor Kurt is betrayed several times in this one. One of his colleagues tells Kurt that he “has lost his grip”. I’m not so sure that that assessment is not correct, both in his personal life and his professional one. Wallander seems particularly crabby and perhaps a little desperate in this story. It does almost seem like it is time for him to pack it up....more

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Mar 31, 2013 Rosa rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Cuando empec�� este libro llegu�� a pensar que podr��a ser el mejor libro de la serie Wallander. Sin embargo ahora que lo he acabado tal vez lo calificar��a de el peor de todos ellos. Supongo que la deformaci��n profesional me impide juzgar este libro con algo m��s de objetividad, pero toda la trama inform��tica y electr��nica alrededor de la cual gira la historia suena por completo a ciencia-ficci��n. No se corresponde para nada con la realidad t��cnica de aquella ��poca ni de ahora.

Por si fuer...more

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May 03, 2013 Kristin rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-books, mystery

I have come to the conclusion that Kurt Wallander is a lousy policeman and detective. He continuously snarls at his team, "I don't care! Do what I say!", he doesn't tell his team OR is supervisor key points in an investigation, he sneaks around behind everyone's back, he has anger management issues, chronic depression, and harasses people at 3am in the morning because he wants the answer NOW but then is irritated when someone calls him in the middle of the night.

Wallander believes he is the mos...more I have come to the conclusion that Kurt Wallander is a lousy policeman and detective. He continuously snarls at his team, "I don't care! Do what I say!", he doesn't tell his team OR is supervisor key points in an investigation, he sneaks around behind everyone's back, he has anger management issues, chronic depression, and harasses people at 3am in the morning because he wants the answer NOW but then is irritated when someone calls him in the middle of the night.

Wallander believes he is the most experienced member on the force, the only detective who can solve crimes and no one else knows what he does. Bull. Shit. The more I read these, the more find him an unpleasant person.

No, I amend that - the more I am coming to detest Wallander as a main character. I can't even empathize with his point of view anymore because he is such an ass to everyone around him. His wallowing in self pity, self destructive behavior, lashing out in anger at his team and witnesses does not sit well with me at all. I'm just short of saying to heck with the series.

An example - I repeatedly noticed he would ask a team member, "Did you investigate X?"

Team member would reply, "No, should I?"

Wallander, "No, it doesn't matter. Go investigate Y."

Team member, whining, "But I don't have time to investigate Y, I'm working on Z."

Wallander, shouting, and slapping the table, "I don't care! Do what I say!"

Team member, placating, "All right! All right!"

Wallander, "Well, don't just stand there!"

So why do I keep listening to these (audiobooks)? Because the look at the Swedish police system and societal beliefs as seen though the eyes of the author are actually quite fascinating. An example - Wallander is shocked that two young girls could commit a brutal murder. And is further shocked when Ann-Britt Hoglund explains to him that young girls don't have a place in society anymore and are lashing out because of it.

But even this glimpse of Swedish society as seen through the pen of the author might not be enough to continue with the series. I enjoy the plots, I detest the main character. Not sure I can recommend this one. (less)

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Jun 09, 2011 Janny rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: dutch-reading, read-2011

Het is een stevig boek. 601 bladzijden maar liefst. Toch had ik het in een mum van tijd uit. Het leest lekker weg, snelle dialogen, een spannend verhaal, een actueel thema en het wordt de lezer niet te gemakkelijk gemaakt. Als lezer ben je echt een eind op weg in de 600 bladzijden voor je een begin van een idee krijgt hoe de vork in de steel zou kunnen zitten.

Onderscheidend voor Mankell vind ik de aandacht die hij aan de persoon Wallander geeft. Hij is niet alleen de inspecteur die een zaak moet...more

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May 12, 2013 Andrewh rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was an enjoyable Wallender, with more emphasis on the police-procedural than in some other works - though we also get an insight into his shambolic private life, which also comes into play in the story [mild spoiler]. It is quite an exciting novel in its way, and slightly violent (Wallender lamps two people and gets shot at twice, and there are gruesome murders), but the translation is a little lumpen - I counted six sentences in a row beginning with 'He', in one para. Basically, we have he...more

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Jul 21, 2012 Terry rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Yes, I got sucked into another Henning Mankell novel. I swore off these after the last one (the 8th I'd read), but "Firewall" was sitting on my bookshelf so I took it out and read it--and liked it, better than some previous Wallender novels. Just before "Firewall" I read "Savages" and the style of the two books could not be more different. "Savages" is fast-paced and terse; "Firewall" is almost ponderous. Mankell mesmerizes with trivial detail (the names of streets, the food Wallender eats, phon...more

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Jun 13, 2011 Paul Patterson rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: scandinavian-mysteries

The only reason I gave this book a three star is because I made the mistake of listening to it on audiobooks rather than just reading it. The vocal interpreter in my opinion was so distracting I could barely keep the plot in my mind. His attempts at Swedish accent were exaggerated and sometimes pathetically funny. Henning Mankell deserves a much better interpretation - the Troubled Man vocalization seems far better from what I have heard.

That said the same excellent characterization of Wallande...more

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Jan 06, 2011 Eric rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

After two teenage girls murder a taxi driver with a hammer and a knife (who said Sweden wasn't violent?) and a man falls dead in front of an ATM machine, Wallender discovers that both events are intertwined with a worldwide conspiracy to bring the economic world down to a halt.

Although the story is somewhat weak, predictable and outdate, Mankell's writing is always quite entertaining. His characters are very well defined and I specially like his main character, his bitterness and perseverance ma...more

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Aug 11, 2010 Lisa rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: suspense

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Jun 07, 2012 Heather rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I am a fan of Kurt Wallender and appreciate Mankell's methodical and thorough narrative. This is not a fast read, but a great read. I like knowing the case from Wallender's perspective and find his character flawed yet endearing. Firewall is about coincidences and conclusions wrapped up in computer terrorism. I am as unknowledgeable as Wallender when it comes to technology, but was able to keep up with him and the elements of the mystery as it unfolded. Mankell doesn't force all of the pieces to...more

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Jan 03, 2013 Minty McBunny rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013, january-2013

This is the 6th Wallander book I have read in the last month or so, so my reaction to it may just be burnout. I have really enjoyed each one thus far but Firewall was a bit of a struggle for me to get through. There were some great high points and a lot of interpersonal drama that I enjoyed, but the central crime of the novel I felt was not as clearly defined as it could have been and I did feel like they chased their own tails a lot longer than necessary. Overall, I love Wallander and will cont...more

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Mar 07, 2010 Jenn rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, mystery, novel, read-2010

Gripping, solid, lengthy mystery that made its main character -- police inspector Kurt Wallander -- the main focus of the story. Wallander's faults and flaws not only make the mystery what it is, they provide the shape and voice to the story. I wanted to know what would happen at the end not only because it was a strange and compelling mystery, but also because I wanted to know what would happen to Kurt Wallander, and that's a great testament to creating a detective.

I jumped into this series at...more

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Jan 18, 2009 Stephanie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

C'est l'automne à Ystad et la nuit sur la Scanie : une jeune fille a été jetée sur les câbles d'un transformateur et un cadavre a été volé à la morgue. Dans le bureau du macchabée, un ordinateur équipé de codes défensifs inviolables semble receler quelques mystères. Un jeune hacker pénètre dans l'ordinateur : attention, l'ennemi invisible a le don d'ubiquité et menace les centres financiers de la planète. Ça sent le scandale médiatique, les magnats préparent leur parachute doré et l'inspecteur W...more

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