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1) Sidetracked
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander volume 5
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
Physical Desc
420 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Kurt Wallander's long-anticipated vacation plans are interrupted by two horrific deaths: the self-immolation of an unidentified young woman and the brutal murder of the former minister of justice. As the police struggle to piece together the few clues they have, the killer strikes again and again. What connection is there between a retired minister of justice, a successful art dealer, and a common petty thief? Why does the killer scalp his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
Physical Desc
279 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death and his wife left to die. As if this didn't present enough problems for Police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman's last word is foreign. This one tangible clue could also inflame Sweden's already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments.
3) Firewall
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander volume 8
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander volume 7
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.
Physical Desc
440 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.
Physical Desc
440 p. : 2 maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Kurt Wallander returns in the second of Henning Mankell's award-winning, internationally bestselling detective series, this time to investigate a horrific crime in his Scandinavian homeland somehow linked to a troubled apartheid-era South Africa. When the tenacious sleuth's search for the truth behind the execution-style killing of a Swedish housewife uncovers a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela, Wallander finds himself in a tangle with...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 21 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, 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 the...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander volume 6
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.
Physical Desc
437 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander volume 9
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
392 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
10) The troubled man
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander volume 10
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st North American ed.
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 25 cm.
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"--
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mystery volume 11
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
169 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Inspector Kurt Wallander discovers a shallow grave in the garden of his new house, he investigates the truth about the residence and its previous owner.