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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller. January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge...

Un inquietante caso en el que la investigación sobre el suicidio de una joven y la aparición de un asesino en serie llevará al inspector Wallander hasta las altas esferas de la política. En Suecia nadie recuerda un verano tan caluroso como el de 1994. Mientras la gente sigue con pasión los...

Henning Mankell's first novel, never before released in English, explores the reflections of a working class man who has struggled against the constraints of his station for his entire life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. The year is 1911. The young rock blaster Oskar Johansson has been killed in an...

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...

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...

After nearly thirty years in the same job, Inspector Kurt Wallander is tired, restless, and itching to make a change. He is taken with a certain old farmhouse, perfectly situated in a quiet countryside with a charming, overgrown garden. There he finds the skeletal hand of a corpse in a shallow...

The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell’s brilliant, brooding detective, Kurt Wallander. On a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation into his disappearance falls under the...

From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander crime novels, a powerful stand-alone novel set in early-twentieth-century Sweden and Mozambique, whose vividly drawn female protagonist is awoken from her naïveté by her exposure to racism and by her own unexpected inner strengths...

'One of the most ingenious crime writers around' Observer 'The figurehead of Nordic noir' Independent 'Mankell is in the first division of crime writing' The Times 'Extraordinary' Ian Rankin One day in 1947, Bertil Kras decides to leave his modest life in Stockholm and begin again - swapping his...

La sesta inchiesta del commissario Wallander. Maggio 1993: in Algeria i fondamentalisti islamici uccidono quattro suore. La quinta donna massacrata è una turista svedese. La polizia algerina cerca di insabbiare il caso. Settembre 1994: una serie di delitti scuote il Sud della Svezia. Omicidi...

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 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 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...