Kurt Wallander mysteries
Author
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The murder of a farming couple in Sweden unleashes a wave of xenophobia when it is learned that the woman's dying words were "foreigner." The case is given to Inspector Kurt Wallender, a lover of opera and booze. Part crime story, part look at the attitude of Swedes to immigrants.
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
Description
Inspector Kurt Wallander returns in the second of Henning Mankell's award-winning, internationally bestselling detective series, this time to investigate a horrific crime in his Scandinavian homeland somehow linked to a troubled apartheid-era South Africa. When the tenacious sleuth's search for the truth behind the execution-style killing of a Swedish housewife uncovers a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela, Wallander finds himself in a tangle with...
Author
Series
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
Description
Inspector Kurt Wallander's long-anticipated vacation plans are interrupted by two horrific deaths: the self-immolation of an unidentified young woman and the brutal murder of the former minister of justice. As the police struggle to piece together the few clues they have, the killer strikes again and again. What connection is there between a retired minister of justice, a successful art dealer, and a common petty thief? Why does the killer scalp his...
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
Description
On Midsummer's Eve, three friends gather in a secluded meadow in Sweden. In the still-sun-lit northern night, they don costumes and begin to role play. But an uninvited guest soon brings their performance to a gruesome conclusion. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect. Three bullets, three corpses. The murderer then carefully photographs the grisly tableau. Meanwhile, the Ystad police station is experiencing a summer lull. Inspector Kurt Wallander...
8) Firewall
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 8
Description
Ystad, Sweden, fall 1997. Two teenage girls brutally murder a taxi driver. Although they are quickly apprehended, one of them escapes police custody and disappears without a trace. A few days later, a man stops at an ATM during his evening walk and suddenly falls dead to the ground. Shortly thereafter, a blackout cuts power to a large swath of southern Sweden. When a serviceman arrives at the malfunctioning power substation, he makes a grisly discovery....
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Collects five mystery stories that detail Kurt Wallander's journey from a twenty-one-year-old rookie police officer to a first-rate detective.
10) The troubled man
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Kurt Wallander moves into a dream home with his girlfriend for a new start for the both of them. Wallander's dog unearths a skeleton buried under fruit trees in the back yard. It's a girl that was murdered 10 years ago. Wallander tries to solve the case as quickly as possible. At the same time a disembodied arm is found washed up on the beach at Ystad and he finds himself investigating two cases, years apart.