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In this case, it is Detective Kurt Wallander's obstinate desire to see that justice is done that brings the truth to light.
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 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
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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 Wallender, a lover of opera and booze. Part crime story, part look at the attitude of Swedes to immigrants.
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In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen, January 1960 nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin's Andren grandparents, and an Andren family from Nevada are among the victims. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andren ancestor, a gang master on the American transcontinental railway, that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers.
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