Henning Mankell
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
-- Young Wallander • A retired navy officer has vanished in a forest near Stockholm. Kurt Wallander is prepared to stay out of the relatively straightforward investigation—which is, after all, another detective’s responsibility—but the missing man is his daughter’s father-in-law. With his typical disregard for rules and regulations, Wallander is soon pursuing his own brand of dogged detective work on someone else’s case. His methods...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
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 Wallander delves deeper into the mystery of why the girls murdered the cab driver, he begins to unravel a plot much more complicated than he initially suspected....
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, January 1960 nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin's Andrén grandparents, and an Andrén family from Nevada are among the victims. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andrén ancestor, a gang master on the American transcontinental railway, that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers.
Author
Series
Colección Maxi volume 004/4
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
"En 1874, el sueco Hans Bengler abandona la carrera de medicina y viaja a África, deseoso de convertirse en un famoso entomólogo. Después de una penosa travesía por el desierto de Kalahari, acoge a un niño negro, Daniel, al parecer huérfano y al que, impulsivamente, adopta. Ya durante el regreso a Suecia, Bengler se topa con las primeras dificultades y prejuicios hacia el niño. El choque con la 'vida civilizada' apenas acaba de empezar"--P....
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In An Event in Autumn, Wallander finds the remains of a young woman buried at the back of his garden. When another woman's body washes up on the shore, Wallander searches for the connection. In The Dogs of Riga, the corpses of two Latvian men, covered in mafia tattoos, are discovered in Ystad harbor. When Wallander travels to Riga in search of the killers, he becomes entangled in a web of corruption. And in Before the Frost, a childhood friend of...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Thrilling mystery tales about the brooding and disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander, set in the beautiful landscape of southern Sweden. In Faceless killers, an elderly couple are attacked at an isolated farmhouse and the town witnesses an outbreak of racist violence. In The man who smiled, Wallander is contacted by an old acquaintance who is suspicious about his father's death. In The fifth woman, an elderly birdwatcher falls to his death in a meticulously...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In The White Lioness, Wallander is drawn into the case of a missing Swedish national while attending a police conference in South Africa. The second film sees Wallander back in Sweden, where a woman's body is discovered half buried in the forest swamps. And in The Troubled Man, Wallander is in a race against time as he embarks on his final case - the disappearance of his daughter's father-in-law.