Kurt Wallander · Book 7
One Step Behind
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 546
- ISBN-13
- 9781407017648
- Type
- novel
About this book
One Step Behind follows The Fifth Woman in the Kurt Wallander series, published in 1997. Mankell's bleak Skane winters and unsparing portrait of a burnt-out detective continue to set the template later credited with launching an entire genre.
Its place in Kurt Wallander
One Step Behind is book 7 in the Kurt Wallander series. It follows The Fifth Woman. It is followed by Firewall. See the full Kurt Wallander reading order.
Kurt Wallander is a middle-aged detective in the small Swedish town of Ystad, and Henning Mankell built him, deliberately, as the anti-hero of the genre he helped invent: overweight, diabetic, divorced, depressive, and quietly appalled by the racism and social fracture he sees creeping into a Sweden he no longer fully recognises. Mankell used each investigation -- into organised crime, far-right violence, trafficking, political conspiracy -- as a lens on late-20th-century Swedish anxiety about immigration, the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781407017648