This five-story collection follows the career of Inspector Kurt Wallander, Henning Mankell's first-rate detective. They take us back to the beginning, tracing Wallander's growth first as a rookie cop, then young father, and finally a middle-aged divorc.
A string of gruesome murders show the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Swedens Detective Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. Fascinating and astute, Sidetracked is a compelling mystery enhanced by keen social awareness.
On Midsummers Eve, three teens are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. With his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know, Inspector Kurt Wallander tracks the lethal progress of the killer but always seems to be just one step behind.
A body is found at an ATM, the apparent victim of a heart attack. Then two teenage girls confess to the brutal murder of a cab driver. As Wallander investigates these two seemingly distinct and simple cases, they merge into a great conspiracy.
In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled by two strange and grotesque murders. His only clues are a skull, a diary, a photo, and an elusive connection to the unsolved murder of the fifth woman.
The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case to Detective Kurt Wallander, who follows a lead on a stalker. But instead Wallander uncovers something more complex and dangerous, an assassination plot that gets him involved with the secret police and a ruthless foreign agent.
After killing a man in the line of duty, a disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander has quit the police force. When an old acquaintance turns up dead, Wallander, against his better judgment, returns to work and, with the help of a rookie female detective, investigates what may now have become a double murder case.
A string of gruesome murders show the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Swedens Detective Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. Sidetracked is a compelling mystery enhanced by keen social awareness.
In Sweden, two victims of torture and execution turn up in a life raft. With no witnesses, motives, or crime scene, Detective Wallander is uncertain he can solve the case, until the victims are traced to a country in the upheaval of Soviet disintegration
The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case, except that there is no obvious suspect. Wallander follows a lead on a determined stalker. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, Wallander begins to realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex and dangerous.
In this adventure from the pen of Sweden's master of crime and mystery, a disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander is thrown back into the fray when he becomes both hunter and hunted. Crestfallen, dejected, and spiraling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance, a solicitor, seeks Wallander's help and later turn...
It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck.
In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered. A year later in Sweden, two baffling murders lead Inspector Kurt Wallander to investigate the unsolved murder of the fifth woman.
In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered. A year later in Sweden, two baffling murders lead Inspector Kurt Wallander to investigate the unsolved murder of the fifth woman.
In Sweden, two victims of torture and execution turn up in a life raft. With no witnesses, motives, or crime scene, Detective Wallander is uncertain he can solve the case, until the victims are traced to a country in the upheaval of Soviet disintegration
The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough, the cops catch up with him.