content: Having read many dozens of mystery/suspense novels, this has to be the worst of all of them. Obviously translated (from Swedish) is terribly choppy and excruciatingly long but more than that, Wallender is a dim, slow, sad police detective whose lack of cognitive skills allowed the serial killer time for more murders. His character is ill formed and unbelievable. Only the Epilogue cleared up multiple questions which any decent writer would have included in the prose. Why this series of books has been recommended is beyond my husband and I, who read it together.