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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, his only tangible clue, were foreign. If publicized, they could be the match that would inflame Sweden's already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments.

While tracking a demented serial killer, Detective Kurt Wallander is beset with obstacles: a department distracted by the threat of cutbacks and the frivolity of World Cup soccer, a tenuous relationship with a widow, and an unshakably haunting preoccupation with a girl who set herself on fire.

The Pyramid is the long-awaited addition to Henning Mankell's critically celebrated and internationally best-selling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the book of five short mysteries that takes us back to the beginning. Here are the stories that trace, chronologically, Wallander's growth from a rookie cop into a young father and then a middle-aged divorcé, illuminating how Wallander became a first-rate detective and highlighting new facets of a now canonical character.

Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skane to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her father - the maverick approach, the flaring temper. Before she even starts work she becomes embroiled in the case of her childhood friend, Anna, who has inexplicably disappeared.

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. Eventually, his search uncovers an assassination plot, and Wallander soon finds himself in a tangle with the secret police and with a ruthless foreign agent.

Zwei junge Mädchen überfallen einen Taxifahrer und töten ihn. Als sie von der Polizei verhört werden, zeigen sie keinerlei Schuldgefühle. Kommissar Wallander kann es kaum fassen. Finden junge Menschen heutzutage wirklich nichts dabei, einen Menschen umzubringen? Er ist sich sicher, dass etwas anderes dahinter steckt.

Stopping to use a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards, a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked - somehow.

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him.

When archaeologist Louise Cantor’s son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe something more sinister took place. Henrik had kept many things back from her and she is shocked to learn he had contracted HIV. The only lead is a letter and photograph from Henrik’s girlfriend in Mozambique. Louise’s quest to unravel the mystery surrounding her son’s death takes her to Africa.

Henning Mankell's last novel, about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire. Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only resident...

Joel är elva år och bor med sin pappa Samuel som är skogshuggare i ett litet norrländskt samhälle. Det finns några saker som Joel tycker är konstiga i livet: att inte veta varför och att inte kunna göra något åt det. Samuel var en gång en sjöman som reste på haven. Och en gång i tiden bodde Joels mamma fortfarande med dem. Samuel övergav havet. Och mamma övergav Samuel och Joel.

Original Swedish crime stories from the masters of Nordic noir, including a never-before published short story by Stieg Larsson Ever since Stieg Larsson shone a light on the brilliance of Swedish crime writing, readers have devoured this dark and compelling genre. Now the nation's best crime...

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 Svezia senza lasciare traccia. È il commissario Kurt Wallander a guidare le ricerche. Attivo membro della chiesa metodista, sposata felicemente con due bambine, Louise è benvoluta e contenta del proprio lavoro: non ci sono indizi che possano giustificare la sua scomparsa.

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 Ystad ha le prove che i due uomini sono stati uccisi e che l’imbarcazione veniva dalla Lettonia. Kurt Wallander parte così per Riga, dove si trova coinvolto in una cospirazione legata ai drammatici cambiamenti politici dei Paesi Baltici.

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 Svezia, un contadino scopre che i suoi vicini, una coppia di vecchi contadini come lui, sono stati assaliti e picchiati barbaramente. Basta una fuga di notizie e comincia la caccia all'uomo. I cittadini non si fidano della polizia, preferiscono organizzare da sé la loro sicurezza e la loro vendetta.

Hannas opvækst er præget af kulde, sult og fattigdom. Skæbnen fører hende om bord på et dampskib på vej til Australien. Her arbejder hun som kok side om side med sin mand, som er styrmand. Ud for den afrikanske østkyst dør ægtemanden af en tropesygdom, og Hanna havner i kolonien Mozambique som ejer af et stort bordel. Selv betragter hun sig blot som en kvinde blandt kvinder, og hun er fuld af medfølelse for de prostituerede og deres elendighed.

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 wird bald zum Gegenstand böswilliger Gerüchte: der Städter, der Neue, das Mitglied der Kommunistischen Partei. Als in einer Winternacht das Sägewerk unter ungeklärten Umständen niederbrennt, wird Bertil zum perfekten Sündenbock.

Miraklet er tredje bog i Henning Mankells serie om Joel. Joel er 13 år og forelsket i en pige, der er 10 år ældre end han selv. Han vil gerne se hende uden tøj på. Han vil også gerne tjene penge og beslutter sig for at blive Sveriges yngste rockmusiker.

Hunden som sprang mod en stjerne er første bog i Henning Mankells serie om Joel. I en lille nordsvensk by bor den 11-årige Joel og hans far, der er skovarbejder. Moderen har forladt dem, og den ensomme dreng søger desperat efter en dybere kontakt med faderen, men det er svært.