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Fredrik Welin, médico retirado, vive solo y alejado del mundo en una isla junto a la costa sueca; pero su reclusión voluntaria se ve perturbada un día por la llegada de un antiguo amor al que abandonó en el pasado. Se trata de Harriet, quien, gravemente enferma, ha venido a pedirle que cumpla una antigua promesa de juventud: llevarla a una laguna del norte del país. Con su presencia, Harriet saca a Fredrik de la apatía en que éste vive sumido y es el detonante para que él se decida a saldar viejas cuentas con su pasado.

El primer título de la serie Inspector Kurt Wallander, un personaje imprescindible del género policiaco. En este histórico primer encuentro con sus lectores, el inspector Wallander debe resolver un caso casi tan complicado como su vida personal.

Kurt Wallander resolverá un horrible crimen y descubrirá un nuevo amor en la turbulenta Letonia de la transición del comunismo a la democracia. En esta segunda entrega, tras haber familiarizado a sus lectores con la fría región de Suecia donde Wallander es jefe de policía, Mankell traslada al inspector fuera de su jurisdicción, al vecino país de Letonia. En la capital debe investigar la muerte de dos letones, cuyos cadáveres llegaron a la costa sueca, paradójicamente, a bordo de un bote salvavidas.

La quinta inchiesta del commissario Wallander. Mentre gli svedesi sono incollati ai televisori per seguire il campionato del mondo di calcio, per Wallander la festa si trasforma in un incubo. Nella magnifica estate nordica una ragazza si cosparge di benzina e si dà fuoco in un campo di colza in fiore. È l’inizio di una terribile serie di omicidi: come un indiano sul piede di guerra, un brutale assassino uccide silenziosamente e strappa lo scalpo al nemico sconfitto.

La terza inchiesta del commissario Wallander. Venerdì 24 aprile 1992. Nello stesso giorno in cui in Sudafrica un gruppo di fanatici progetta un attentato contro uno degli uomini politici più in vista del paese, Louise Åkerblom, titolare di un’agenzia immobiliare, scompare dal Sud della Svezia senza lasciare traccia. È il commissario Kurt Wallander a guidare le ricerche. Attivo membro della chiesa metodista, sposata felicemente con due bambine, Louise è benvoluta e contenta del proprio lavoro: non ci sono indizi che possano giustificare la sua scomparsa.

In this adventure from the pen of Sweden's master of crime and mystery, a disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander is thrown back into the fray when he becomes both hunter and hunted. Crestfallen, dejected, and spiraling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance, a solicitor, seeks Wallander's help and later turns up dead, Wallander realizes that he was wrong not to listen.

While tracking a demented serial killer, Detective Kurt Wallander is beset with obstacles: a department distracted by the threat of cutbacks and the frivolity of World Cup soccer, a tenuous relationship with a widow, and an unshakably haunting preoccupation with a girl who set herself on fire.

It was a crime of senseless violence. On a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer was bludgeoned to death, his wife left to die with a noose around her neck. As if this didn't present enough problems for Ystad police inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman's last word, his only tangible clue, were foreign. If publicized, they could be the match that would inflame Sweden's already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments.

In un tiepido pomeriggio di giugno del 1969, Wallander viene svegliato di soprassalto da un forte rumore che si insinua nei suoi sogni. Uno sparo. Non gli ci vorrà molto per scoprire il corpo senza vita del suo vicino: una macchia di sangue intorno al cuore, un revolver accanto alla mano. Agente poco più che ventenne, ambizioso e ancora innamorato di Mona, Wallander si trova così a collaborare con la squadra investigativa di cui da sempre sogna di far parte, una scelta che porta ad amari scontri con il padre.

A body is found at an ATM, the apparent victim a 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 two 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.

In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered, and the death of the unknown woman is covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two strange murders with an elusive connection to the fifth woman.

Joel ska snart fylla tretton år. Det lilla samhälle där han växer upp känns som för trånga kläder. Dessutom börjar han uppleva den märkliga klåda som vuxna kallar för kärlek. Problemet är bara att flickan i hans drömmar är tio är äldre än han själv. För att finna en lösning på sina problem bestämmer han sig för att bli rockstjärna. Det ska hjälpa honom ut i världen. Till allt det som väntar bortanför älven och de djupa skogarna.

The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case, except that there is no obvious suspect. Wallander follows a lead on a determined stalker. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, Wallander begins to realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex and dangerous. Eventually, his search uncovers an assassination plot, and Wallander soon finds himself in a tangle with the secret police and with a ruthless foreign agent.

On Midsummer's Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in 18th-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander's most trusted colleagues, someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime, also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related. But with his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know, he can't begin to imagine how.

On the Swedish coastline, the bodies of two victims of grisly torture and cold execution are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain that he has the ability to solve the case. After the victims are traced to Latvia, Major Liepa of the Riga police takes over the investigation. Thinking his work is done, Wallander slips back into his routine - until he is suddenly called to Riga and plunged into an alien world.

The Pyramid is the long-awaited addition to Henning Mankell's critically celebrated and internationally best-selling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the book of five short mysteries that takes us back to the beginning. Here are the stories that trace, chronologically, Wallander's growth from a rookie cop into a young father and then a middle-aged divorcé, illuminating how Wallander became a first-rate detective and highlighting new facets of a now canonical character.

Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skane to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her father - the maverick approach, the flaring temper. Before she even starts work she becomes embroiled in the case of her childhood friend, Anna, who has inexplicably disappeared.

La quarta inchiesta del commissario Wallander. Nel sud della Scania coperta dalla fitta nebbia di ottobre, l’avvocato Gustaf Torstensson viene trovato morto all'interno della sua auto. Per la polizia di Ystad si tratta di un incidente. Intanto, Kurt Wallander è deciso a porre termine alla sua carriera di poliziotto, ma quando viene a sapere che qualcuno ha sparato al suo amico Sten Torstensson, il figlio di Gustaf, decide di tornare a Ystad e riprendere servizio per un'altra, appassionante indagine.

Vom Wissen um unsere Sterblichkeit. Die Diagnose Krebs erinnerte Henning Mankell an einen Albtraum aus seiner Kindheit: An das Bild im Treibsand zu versinken. In dieser Krise hilft Mankell das Nachdenken über die großen Fragen: Woher kommen wir? Wohin gehen wir? Welche Art von Gesellschaft will ich mitgestalten?

Mankells Debütroman erstmals auf Deutsch. "Oskar. Ein lustiger Alter, der in einer alten Militärsauna wohnt. Er winkt immer, wenn man vorbeifährt. Er hat nur eine Hand und ein Auge." Als junger Mann wird der Sprengmeister Oskar Johansson bei einer fehlgeleiteten Zündung schwer verletzt. Seine Freundin verlässt ihn, und so heiratet er ihre Schwester und führt ein bescheidenes, entbehrungsreiches Leben. Trotz seiner Verwundung kehrt Oskar in seinen Beruf zurück. Er wird politisch aktiv und glaubt an eine Revolution, die nie kommt. Schon in seinem Debütroman, den er mit Anfang 20 schrieb, zeigt sich Mankell als politischer Schriftsteller, dessen Anliegen heute aktueller scheinen denn je.