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Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 8
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
405 p.
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 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 involved complicated than he initially...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
279 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didnt́ present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying womanś last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have--and in the process, the match that could inflame Swedenś already smoldering anti-immigrant...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, 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 he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is heinous. But after the victims are traced to the Baltic state of Latvia, a country gripped by the upheaval of Soviet disintegration, Major Liepa of the Riga police takes over...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
440 p. : 2 maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough, the cops catch up with him. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, they realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex?and dangerous. The search for the truth behind the killing eventually uncovers an assassination plot, and Wallander...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
438 p. : 1 map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 and tied to a tree. The...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander volume 4
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
325 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a year on sick leave, for killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander is ready to leave the Ystad police force. His plans are abandoned, however, when a friend who had asked him to investigate the death of his father is himself found dead. Teaming with Ann-Britt Hoglund, the department's first female detective, Wallander's investigation leads to a powerful business tycoon engaging in extralegal activities.
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
420 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Swedenś former Minister of Justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander volume 10
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Series
Linda Wallander mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
383 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The leader of a religious cult in Guyana instigates a mass suicide. He succeeds in killing himself and his whole flock of worshippers, save one. One man escapes. In the wood in the country land outside Ystad, the police make an horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victim's side, handwritten corrections and amendments on every page. A string of incidents, including attacks on domestic...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander volume 9
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Håkan von Enke, a retired naval officer, disappears during a walk in a forest near Stockholm. Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation, but he is personally affected -- von Enke is his daughter's father-in-law -- and Wallander is soon interfering in matters that are not his responsibility. He is confounded by the information he uncovers, which hints at elaborate Cold War espionage. Wallander is also haunted by his own past and desperate...
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