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Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer has been bludgeoned to death, his wife left to die with a noose around her neck. Before the old woman dies, she utters the word foreign, which may be the only real clue the police have to go on. And they need to work fast. The press has reported the dying word, and white supremacists have threatened a nearby refugee camp, vowing to take justice into their own hands. Recently divorced, overweight, drinking...
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
423 p. ; 24 cm.
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...
4) Firewall
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
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
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is Midsummer's Eve, three young friends gather in a wood. In the still-sunlit, Scandanavian dusk, they don costumes joyfully to enact - or so it appears to an unseen observer - a kind of masque. The hidden watcher soon brings their performance to an end. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect - three bullets, three corpses. The murderer, then, carefully photographs the grisly tableau. The Ystad police station, meanwhile, is experiencing a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead. The dead men were criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea, to Riga in Latvia, where he is plunged into...
Author
Series
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
383 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Linda Wallander's first job as a police officer is complicated by her father's presence on the police force, until Linda's childhood friend disappears, forcing the father and daughter to work together and find the missing girl before it is too late.
Series
Wallander volume Season 1
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three new crime dramas based on the best selling books by Henning Mankell - Sidetracked, Firewall, and One Step Behind - follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
Series
Wallander volume Season 2
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (Not rated) (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Returns with Wallander in the next set of thrilling tales set in the beautiful landscape of southern Sweden. These stories follow Kurt Wallander, a sensitive but brilliant detective, a man who takes each murder case he works on personally and will stop at nothing in his search for the truth, even at the expense of his health and his family life. Beautifully filmed, Wallander is a compelling series featuring an extremely likeable and entirely believable...
10) The troubled man
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"A novel in which Kurt Wallander becomes involved in the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer--who is Wallander's daughter Linda's future father-in-law--which leads him into a story of Cold War espionage. Wallander also confronts his own age and mortality, while welcoming his first granddaughter"--
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