CRIME.(Review) From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: September 23, 2002| Author: Binyon, Tj | COPYRIGHT 2002 Solo Syndication Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: TJ BINYON

One Step Behind, by Henning Mankell (Harvill Press, [pound]16.99) ON Midsummer's Eve three young people hold a midnight picnic on a nature reserve in SkAne, Sweden's southernmost province. In homage to Carl Michael Bellman, Sweden's greatest poet, they dress up in 18th-century costume, and toast him in red wine, while listening to his song-cycle, Fredman's Epistles.

But, at three in the morning, the revels are abruptly ended when someone st...

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