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1) 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.
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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 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...
4) 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 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...
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 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.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In order to escape brutal poverty Hanna Lundmark flees her home in Sweden to work as a cook on a ship bound for Australia. On board she falls in love and marries the ship's mate who dies tragically on the voyage. Griefstricken, Hanna jumps ship at the African port town of Lourenðco Marques in Mozambique, where a series of events leads to her becoming the owner of a brothel. However, racial tensions in the town are high between the white settlers...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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. He has a daughter he rarely sees and his mailman Jansson is the closest thing he has to a friend, and to an adversary. He is perfectly content to live out...
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