By Henning Mankell
6th within the Kurt Wallander series.On Midsummer’s Eve, 3 role-playing adolescents wearing eighteenth-century clothing are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. while certainly one of Inspector Kurt Wallander’s so much depended on colleagues–someone whose aid he was hoping to depend upon to resolve the crime–also turns up lifeless, Wallander is aware the murders are similar. yet along with his in basic terms clue an image of a girl nobody in Sweden turns out to grasp, he can’t start to think how. Reeling from his personal father’s loss of life and dealing with his personal deteriorating healthiness, Wallander tracks the deadly growth of the killer. Locked in a determined attempt to capture him sooner than he moves back, Wallander regularly appears only one step at the back of.
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But then they regained their composure. They spread out a large tablecloth, unpacked their baskets and put on a tape with several renditions of the most famous songs from Bellman's work, Fredman's Epistles. Then the celebration began. When winter comes, they said to each other, we will think back on this evening. They were creating yet another secret for themselves. At midnight he had still not made up his mind. He knew he had plenty of time. They would be staying until dawn. Perhaps they would even stay and sleep all morning.
I'll see you tomorrow. " Wallander went to the kitchen and drank some water. Ann-Britt was a very thoughtful person. She remembered things. He would never have thought to do the same if the situation had been reversed. m. He fried some Falu sausage and potatoes and ate in front of the TV. He flipped through the channels, but nothing seemed interesting. Afterwards he took his cup of coffee and went out onto the balcony. As soon as the sun went down, it grew cooler, and he went back in again. He spent the rest of the evening going through the things he had brought back from Loderup earlier that day.
There was no hurry; it could wait until the summer's end, but she wanted to move out before the autumn. Her sister was recently widowed and lived outside the town of Rynge, and she wanted to move there. Now the time had come. Wallander had taken the day off. m. an estate agent would come out from Ystad, and together they would settle on a reasonable selling price. Before that, Wallander and Gertrud would go through the last few boxes of his father's belongings. They had finished packing the week before.