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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...

A disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander is thrown back into the fray as both hunter and hunted in this fourth adventure from Sweden’s master of crime and mystery. Crestfallen, dejected, and spiraling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector...

It was a crime of senseless violence. On a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer was bludgeoned to death, his wife left to die with a noose around her neck. As if this didn’t present enough problems for Ystad police inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word...

Detective Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former minister of justice has been...

This collection of five stories traces the growth of Swedish Inspector Kurt Wallander into a first-rate detective, from rookie cop to young father to middle-aged divorcé, illuminating new facets of a now-canonical character. In “Wallander’s First Case,” the twenty-one-year-old...

In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered, and the death of the unknown woman is covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two strange murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and...

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...

Joel är elva år och bor med sin pappa Samuel som är skogshuggare i ett litet norrländskt samhälle. Det finns några saker som Joel...

In this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter, Linda, join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree. Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skåne to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her...

A body is found at an ATM, the apparent victim of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime, showing no remorse whatsoever. Two open-and-shut cases. At first, these incidents seem to have nothing in common. But as...

Zwei junge Mädchen überfallen einen Taxifahrer und töten ihn...

Linda Wallander, die Tochter von Kommissar Kurt Wallander, hat gerade die Polizeihochschule abgeschlossen als sie von ihrem Vater von eigenartigen Vorfällen erfährt: Brennende Tiere, eine Amerikanerin wird in einer Kirche erdrosselt und ein Lastwagen voll Dynamit lässt den Dom von Lund in...

Eigentlich sucht Kommissar Wallander nur ein gemütliches Haus am Meer als Rückzugsort. Doch schon bei der ersten Hausbesichtigung findet er im Garten die Überreste einer Frauenleiche. Und es bleibt nicht bei dieser einen... Autor Henning Mankell und "Tatort"-Kommissar Axel Milberg sind ein...

La quarta inchiesta del commissario Wallander. Nel sud della Scania coperta dalla fitta nebbia di ottobre, l’avvocato Gustaf Torstensson viene trovato morto all'interno della sua auto. Per la polizia di Ystad si tratta di un incidente. Intanto, Kurt Wallander è deciso a porre termine alla sua...

La quinta inchiesta del commissario Wallander. Mentre gli svedesi sono incollati ai televisori per seguire il campionato del mondo di calcio, per Wallander la festa si trasforma in un incubo. Nella magnifica estate nordica una ragazza si cosparge di benzina e si dà fuoco in un campo di colza in...

La terza inchiesta del commissario Wallander. Venerdì 24 aprile 1992. Nello stesso giorno in cui in Sudafrica un gruppo di fanatici progetta un attentato contro uno degli uomini politici più in vista del paese, Louise Åkerblom, titolare di un’agenzia immobiliare, scompare dal Sud della...

La seconda inchiesta del commissario Wallander. Sulle coste svedesi, in un freddo mattino d’inverno, da un peschereccio che si fa strada tra i ghiacci viene avvistato un gommone di salvataggio. A bordo ci sono due cadaveri. Le indagini portano il commissario Wallander a est: la polizia di...

La prima inchiesta del commissario Wallander. Sulle tracce di un assassino che colpisce con inaudita violenza, il commissario Kurt Wallander deve fare i conti anche con chi ha deciso di farsi giustizia da sé. Una fredda giornata di gennaio poco prima dell’alba, in un paese del sud della...

In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human. I have undertaken a journey from my childhood to the man I am today, writing about the key events in my life, and about the people who have given...

Henning Mankell mit einem Roman voll politischer Sprengkraft, eindringlicher Aktualität und psychologischer Tiefe. Schweden nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Bertil Kras beschließt, Stockholm zu verlassen und in eine kleine Stadt in Norrland zu ziehen. Dort nimmt er einen Job im Sägewerk an und...