Kurt Wallander mysteries
Author
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 1
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
©1997.
Language
English
Description
One frozen January Morning at 5 am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he expects is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, victims of violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When this is leaked to the press, racial hatred is...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When a life raft carrying the bodies of two Eastern European criminals washes up on the Swedish coastline, Inspector Kurt Wallender travels to Riga, Latvia, where he struggles against corruption and deceit and risks his own life to uncover the truth.
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Swedish inspector Kurt Wallender investigates the murder of a woman whose body was stuffed in a well. The case has international ramifications, involving a plot against Nelson Mandela of South Africa.
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"The Man Who Smiled begins with Wallander deep in a personal and professional crisis after killing a man in the line of duty; eventually, he vows to quit the Ystad police force for good. Just then, however, a friend who had asked Wallander to look into the death of his father winds up dead himself, shot three times. Ann-Britt H?glund, the department?s first female detective, proves to be his best ally as he tries to pierce the smiling fa?ade of his...
5) Sidetracked
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
His long-awaited vacation interrupted by two deaths, Inspector Kurt Wallander begins trying to piece together how the brutal murder of a former minister of justice is related to the self-immolation of an unidentified young woman.
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series. In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, and the body of a missing florist is discovered--strangled...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the deaths of three young celebrants after the Midsummer's Eve ritual.
8) Firewall
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 8
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
©2002.
Language
English
Description
"Ystad, Sweden. A man stops at an ATM during his evening walk and inexplicably falls dead to the ground. Two teenage girls brutally murder a taxi driver. They are quickly apprehended, shocking local policemen with their complete lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without a trace."--Jacket.
10) The troubled man
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kurt Wallander is called into the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer, coincidentally his daughter's future father-in-law, he becomes embroiled in a story of Cold War espionage.
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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 grave. Wallander's investigation takes him deep into the history of the house and the land, until finally the shocking truth about a long-buried secret is brought...