Before the Frost

A Kurt and Linda Wallander Novel

De: Henning Mankell, Ebba Segerberg - translator

Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell

In this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter, Linda, join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree.

Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skane to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her father - the maverick approach, the flaring temper. Before she even starts work she becomes embroiled in the case of her childhood friend, Anna, who has inexplicably disappeared.

As the case that her father is working on dovetails with her own, something far more dangerous than either could have imagined begins to emerge. They soon find themselves forced to confront a group of extremists bent on punishing the world's sinners.

More mayhem? Listen to all of our Kurt Wallander mysteries.©2002 Henning Mankell (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Powerful....Thoroughly engaging....Amazingly human characters....Mankell [is] a master storyteller." ( San Francisco Chronicle)
"Gripping, beautifully orchestrated....Henning Mankell is an addictive writer." ( Los Angeles Times Book Review)

Great story but narrator terrible.

Story is mostly predictable but enjoyed the characters and the journey it took to solve mysterious disappearance and murder and tie it together. Narrator almost ruined it. She had two emotions, overly angry and bored. Narrator also slipped into an Irish accent a few times while trying to be Swedish.

Grim

Very dark story intertwined with extremist evangelical actions and ideology. The performance was laced with excessive anger and yelling. Had to force myself to listen until it ended.

Good story, bad narration

I’ve loved all the Wallander books, and this one had great potential if only the reader would have done a little research into the characters before reading the book. She was not my favorite. I found that I would ignore a lot of the things happening just to get it over with.

A New Wallender on the Case!

If you like Kurt Wallender mysteries, then this one is for you. The lead character is Linda, his daughter. She has decided to follow in her father's footsteps and enter the police force. However, after she finishes her formal training, and before her post begins in Ystad, she becomes involved in events that may be related -- a missing friend and a grisly murder. This allows her to do some investigating on her own, and it allows her to observe and work with her father, Kurt. It's got a good mystery, and explores father-daughter dynamics in an interesting way.

Not the best!

I was predisposed to like this book, but I really didn't like the narrators voice for Wallender. Very distracting. Linda's character is so focused on herself that it becomes tedious and she acts so stupidly towards the end of the book that I couldn't really care what happened to her. Hope other Wallender books are better.