Mankell, Henning

While investigating the murders of nineteen people, including her grandparents, in a small village in Sweden, Judge Birgitta Roslin learns of others of the same family in Nevada who were also murdered and a connection between China and the slave trade of the nineteenth century.

Convinced that her beloved twenty-eight-year-old son was killed in spite of a police ruling that he committed suicide, archaeologist Louise Cantor travels throughout the world in search of answers.

Spiraling 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, until an old acquaintance seeks Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious circumstances in which his father has died, only to end up dead himself.

A volume of short works features investigator Kurt Wallander as a young patrolman on his first case, a new father facing unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, and an experienced detective solving a variety of murders.

Fredrik Welin, having abandoned his career as a surgeon following a terrible mistake, has lived for years on an isolated island, but his life takes an unexpected turn when Harriet, a woman he once loved, shows up decades after he left her and demands he fulfill an old promise to take her to a forest pool he visited as a youth.

Arriving in newly independent Zambia in the hopes of fulfilling a friend's missionary dream, Hans Olofson endeavors to make Africa his home while struggling with such past demons as his father's alcoholism and a friend's accident.

The murder of a farming couple in Sweden unleashes a wave of xenophobia when it is learned that the woman's dying words were "foreigner." The case is given to Inspector Kurt Wallander, a lover of opera and booze. Part crime story, part look at the attitude of Swedes to immigrants.

Continues the story of Joel, now nearly twelve and living with his father in a small town in 1957 Sweden, as he is run over by a bus and survives without a scratch, then sets out to do a good deed in gratitude for this miracle.

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.

In 1956 Sweden, eleven-year-old Joel and his father, a logger who was once a sailor, live alone with their secrets, including Joel's secret society that meets at night and his father's new romantic interest.