Kurt Wallander · Book 9
The Pyramid
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 560
- ISBN-13
- 9780753183847
- Type
- collection
About this book
The Pyramid is a story collection in the Kurt Wallander series, published in 1999. Most of its stories are prequels set before Faceless Killers, useful as backstory but readable at any point since they sit outside the main numbered run.
Its place in Kurt Wallander
The Pyramid is book 9 in the Kurt Wallander series. It follows Firewall. It is followed by An Event in Autumn. 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 9780753183847