SYNOPSIS

Pyramid is a collection of five stories that take place in the twenty years before the first novel in the Kurt Wallander series. The famous inspector is a young policeman in the turbulent 60s of the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, who begins his career in the crime investigation section when his neighbour dies. In the second story, a few years have passed, and Wallander faces a complicated situation in a shop where a murder has just been committed. In the third, the inspector investigates a strange case of a man found dead at the end of a taxi ride. In the fourth, the case of the murder of a photographer turns out to be more difficult than Wallander expected. And finally, in the last, the inspector interrupts the investigation of a triple murder to travel to Egypt and free his father from prison.

REVIEW

This is the first book I’ve read about Inspector Kurt Wallander and I didn’t like it very much. The author writes well, but the stories are not very compelling. The perpetrators of the murders are almost unknown people who don’t give the reader time to make a prediction about who the culprit might be.
Time, narrative space and dialogues are the aspects of the narration to which the author has paid most attention. The descriptions of the places reflect the personality of the protagonist, while the dialogues make the action flow with relevant information on the cases and show some aspects of the characters’ personality.