One Step Behind (novel)

One Step Behind

First edition (Sweden)
Author	Henning Mankell
Original title	Steget efter
Translator	Ebba Segerberg
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish
Series	Kurt Wallander #7
Genre	Crime, Mystery novel
Publisher	Ordfront
Publication date	1997
Published in English	September 2002
Media type	Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages	400 pp (Eng. hardback trans.)
ISBN	1-86046-983-3 (Eng. trans.)
Preceded by	The Fifth Woman
Followed by	Firewall

One Step Behind is a 1997 crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, the seventh in his acclaimed Inspector Wallander series.

Synopsis[]

Two young women and one young man, inexplicably dressed as the nobility of Sweden did during the reign of Gustavus III, are found dead, each slain with a single bullet, their bodies half consumed by animals in the wilderness. Wallander is horrified when he makes a connection between the crime and his close friend and colleague Svedberg, and after the latter is found savagely murdered in his own apartment, the tormented detective finds himself up against a deranged, merciless killer who remains just one step ahead of him.

Adaptation[]

In 2005, One Step Behind was adapted by Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television into a theatrical film, starring Rolf Lassgård as Wallander. In 2008, British broadcaster BBC One broadcast a 90-minute adaptation as part of its Wallander television series starring Kenneth Branagh.

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