To get cold in the back!

With this book, Mankell is sinking even further into the depths of the sordid. The hero emerges such antipathy that the reader feels a growing unease as the story unfolds. We are still intrigued by his double life. The hero is torn between his wife, left alone in the city and gradually tilting into madness, and his encounter with a lost daughter on an island that promises a better life. But to maintain this double life, he does not hesitate to switch to the crime.