Linda's father figures more prominently than this reviewer had expected, and Linda doesn't even become an official member of the Ystad force until not far short of the last page. But as the daughter of her father, she inevitably gets involved in the plot even though she has no business to be there, and she sails forth into dangerous situations when she should really have reported back to the police and kept out of the way while they solved the problems. Readers of the Wallander series would have expected nothing less.