Vintage/Black Lizard, New York, 2003, reprint.  ISBN 978-1-4000-3151-1.  Trade soft cover, 440 pages.  Wraps show some edge and cover wear, small corner creases/bends; moisture rippling to front cover and first few pages, plus two other pages near rear of book; no water marks evident.  Interior clean and unmarked.  ‘On Midsummer’s Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow.  When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander’s most trusted colleagues – someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime – also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related … Reeling from his father’s death and facing his own deteriorating health, Wallander tracks the lethal progress of the killer.  Locked in a desperate effort to catch him before he strikes again, Wallander always seems to be just one step behind.’ (from rear wrap)