Sidetracked (novel)

Sidetracked
First edition (Swedish)
AuthorHenning Mankell
Original titleVillospår
TranslatorSteven T. Murray
LanguageSwedish
SeriesKurt Wallander #5
GenreCrime, Mystery novel
PublisherOrdfront
Publication date
1995
Publication placeSweden
Published in English
1999
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages420 pp (Eng. hardback trans.)
ISBN1-86046-785-7 (Eng. trans.)
OCLC44398108
Preceded byThe Man Who Smiled 
Followed byThe Fifth Woman 

Sidetracked (first published as Villospår in 1995) is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, the fifth in his Kurt Wallander series.[1] Translated into English, it won the UK Crime Writers' Association annual Gold Dagger award for "best crime novel" in 2001.

  1. ^ Andrew Nestingen (2014). "Nordic Noir and Neo-noir: The Human Criminal". In Homer B. Pettey; R. Barton Palmer (eds.). International noir. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 181. doi:10.1515/9780748691111-011. ISBN 978-0-7486-9111-1. S2CID 246932240.