Henning Mankell
Language
Swedish
Description
The overdose: A white car is parked by a side road in the beautiful landscape of Scania in southern Sweden. A child sits alone without an adult in sight. The child's father has been reported as missing, while the mother is in a psychiatric institution, unresponsive and apathetic. Kurt Wallander's failing health sees Linda take the lead in the case. It will touch her deeply as she discovers that the child has been unscrupulously tricked, exploited...
Language
Swedish
Description
Before anyone else played the part, Rolf Lassgard established the role of Kurt Wallander in the original Swedish film adaptations of Henning Mankell's bestselling crime novels. Kurt Wallander is a cop who gets the job done; decades of coming up against criminal minds has honed his instincts for investigations and he knows where to draw the line between the job and personal vendettas. Usually. Includes: The Man Who Smiled; Firewall, Parts 1 & 2; and...
Series
Language
Swedish
Description
A lifetime of police work has left Detective Kurt Wallander with the look of a man who's seen too much. In a spare and compelling performance, Krister Henriksson does justice to the complicated detective beloved by fans of the bestselling crime novels by Henning Mankell.
Language
Swedish
Description
Wallander is Ystad's veteran detective who's finally learned to find respite from the job in the moments of grace that come from living on the beach with his dog, Jussi, or spending time with his granddaughter. He's still on the outs at work, however, offbeat methods make him an irritant for management and his colleague, Martinsson, is angling for his position. But no one in the department has the uncanny sense of the criminal mind that he does.
Language
Swedish
Description
The Photographer: An American tourist is found dead and her husband demands the body and all her possessions be returned. Just before her death she visited a renowned photographer, fuelling the suspicion of adultery. Detective Wallander takes an interest in the cuckolded husband and suspects there is more to the photographer than meets the eye.
The Tricksters: A farmer is apparently kicked to death by a horse, until Detective Wallander investigates...
6) Wallander
Language
Swedish
Description
"Wallander follows the titular chief inspector Kurt Wallander ... as he investigates crimes and solves mysteries in the deceptively dark underbelly of picturesque modern Sweden"--Container.