Sidetracked

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Sidetracked

British first edition cover
Author Henning Mankell
Original title VillospÄr
Translator Steven T. Murray
Country Sweden
Language Swedish
Series Kurt Wallander #5
Genre(s) Crime, Mystery novel
Publisher Harvill Secker
Publication date 1995 (orig.)
Published in
English
1999 (Eng. trans.)
Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages 420 pp (Eng. hardback trans.)
ISBN ISBN 1860467857 (Eng. trans.)
Preceded by The Man Who Smiled
Followed by The Fifth Woman


Sidetracked is a 1995 novel by Swedish writer Henning Mankell, the fifth in his acclaimed Kurt Wallander series. Upon translation into American English by Steven T. Murray in 1999 and its release in the UK in 2001, the novel won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year. Sidetracked is the first Wallander novel to be adapted for the BBC television series Wallander.

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