Henning Mankell

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.

This collection of five stories traces the growth of Swedish Inspector Kurt Wallander into a first-rate detective, from rookie cop to young father to middle-aged divorce. In "Wallander's First Case, " the twenty-one-year-old patrolman's first homicide case involves his next-door neighbor, seemingly dead by his own hand. Wallander is a young father confronting an unexpected threat on Christmas Eve in "The Man with the Mask." In "The Man on the Beach,...

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 brought...

Fredrik Welin is a reclusive ex-surgeon living alone on a tiny island in the north of Sweden. His only companions are a pair of aged pets, and the only society callers to his living room are ants that are transforming his table into an enormous anthill. Every morning, the loner goes out to the frozen lake, cuts a hole in the ice, and then plunges himself into the freezing water to remind himself that he is still alive. Four women enter his life: Harriet,...

In Sweden in 1956, 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.

Una helada mañana de enero de 2006, un fótografo hace un descubrimiento aterrador: en el pueblecito sueco de Hesjövallen, aparecen brutalmente asesinadas diecinueve personas. La policia sospecha que es obra de un perturbado; pero la jueza Birgitta Roslin, que se interesa por el caso en cuanto sabe que entre las víctimas figura la familia adoptiva de su madre, sostiene otra teoría. Una cinta de seda roja encontrada en la nieve le pone en...

A lifetime of police work has left Detective Kurt Wallander with the look of a man who's seen too much. Recently recovered from a heart attack, veteran Wallander works alongside his daughter Linda, a recent academy graduate, and Stefan Lindman, a young detective eager to prove himself. Together, they solve cases in the Swedish seaside city of Ystad and confront the darkest recesses of the human heart. Before the frost: A series of bizarre, ghoulish...

In The White Lioness, Wallander is drawn into the case of a missing Swedish national while attending a police conference in South Africa. The second film sees Wallander back in Sweden, where a woman's body is discovered half buried in the forest swamps. And in The Troubled Man, Wallander is in a race against time as he embarks on his final case - the disappearance of his daughter's father-in-law.