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.
Key facts about One Step Behind
One Step Behind is a novel by Henning Mankell. Readers have had it since 1997. It runs to 546 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of One Step Behind. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781407017648 to find the main one.
One Step Behind is book 7 of 11 in the Kurt Wallander series. The series has 11 published books. However, the series starts with Faceless Killers (1991).
Additionally, Henning Mankell writes Joel Gustafson and Sofia as separate series. Those series sit on our young adult and nordic noir shelves. Meanwhile, After the Fire is the latest published Henning Mankell book on file, from 2015.
About Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell was a Swedish author widely credited as one of the founding figures of the Scandinavian noir crime wave that reshaped international crime fiction from the 1990s onward. See every Henning Mankell book in order.
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