Sidetracked
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN-13
- 9781595586162
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sidetracked, book five of the Kurt Wallander series, appeared in 1995. Mankell keeps the mystery functioning as serious commentary on Swedish society rather than pure puzzle-plotting, the same melancholy procedural mode that made him the writer credited with founding Scandinavian noir.
Key facts about Sidetracked
Henning Mankell wrote Sidetracked, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1995. The book has 432 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781595586162 to find the main one.
Sidetracked is book 5 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
Sidetracked is book 5 in the Kurt Wallander series. It follows The Man Who Smiled. It is followed by The Fifth Woman. 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 9781595586162