One Step Behind

From the dean of Scandinaviannoir, the sixth riveting installment in the internationally bestselling anduniversally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, the basis for the PBS series staring Kenneth Branagh.

On Midsummers Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallanders most trusted colleaguessomeone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crimealso turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related. But with his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know, he cant begin to imagine how. Reeling from his own fathers death and facing his own deteriorating health, Wallander tracks the lethal progress of the killer. Locked in a desperate effort to catch him before he strikes again, Wallander always seems to be just one step behind.