Regularity and innovation

Mankell is innovative here, including in the plot Wallander's own daughter, who in tapestry, finally chose to join the ranks of the Swedish police, which is more affected in Ystad in Skåne, the southern end of country border region of Denmark. In short, where his father officiates. Linda will conduct a parrallel investigation, going in search of her best friend, Anna Westin, who strangely disappeared overnight. On several occasions, including lorsqu''elle acknowledges diary of her friend, Linda finds clues that strangely overlapping partly wild murder of a woman in love with the history of Swedish roads. It also crosses cranks by a fanatical sectarian guru, but, prima facie, does not seem bad.

The major innovation of Mankell, more than the entry of a new character, which anticipates later, it ''s the double investigation of the father and the daughter. Each of his side following his intuitions, do not give all the information to the other, fall into various traps in the end not fully trust. This father-daughter relationship rings true, a mixture of love and revulsion, of paternal authority and youthful rebellion. It ''s that the quality of this novel.

Furthermore, I would almost say as always, Mankell knows how to make the person as' dark atmosphere, cold, pastoral and slow deep Sweden. All in the service of a plot with multiple twists and turns, the one of the most structurally sound of Mankell. We plunge into the world of sects, religions pasteboard, sadism to animals and men. Mankell expose us, once again, the weaknesses of the soul and the human condition. An excellent novel.