Spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance seeks Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious circumstances in which his father has died, Kurt doesn't want to know.

Midsummer approaches, and Inspector Kurt Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. But his restful summer plans are thrown into disarray when a teenage girl commits suicide before his eyes, and a former minister of justice is butchered.

It is Midsummer's Eve and three friends gather in a wood to act out a masque. A hidden watcher soon brings their performance to an end. Three bullets, three corpses. What is the connection between these deaths and the murder of one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues.

After a death, a brutal murder and a blackout which covers half the country, Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective.

When Kurt Wallander first appeared in 'Faceless Killers', he was a senior police officer, just turned 40, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him, he ate badly and drank alone at night. 'The Pyramid' chronicles the events that led him to such a place.

After the success of the Kurt Wallander series, Henning Mankell begins a new chapter. As Kurt prepares for retirement his daughter Linda prepares to join the Ystad police force and becomes an immediate star in her own right.

One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes 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, both victims of a violence beyond reason.

Novela o komisaři Wallanderovi Po třiceti letech na stejném pracovním místě je komisař Kurt Wallander unavený, nevrlý a má nutkání konečně něco změnit. Když se mu naskytne možnost koupit starý statek s kouzelnou zarostlou zahradou na klidném venkově, zdá se to jako sen. Idyla se však vzápětí rozplyne — komisař na zahradě najde ruku, vlastně celou kostru, pohřbenou v mělkém hrobě. Místo zařizování útulného domova tak Wallanderovi nezbude než se pustit do toho, co mu beztak jde nejlépe — pátrání po vrahovi.

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