HENNING MANKELL

When archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe something more sinister took place. Henrik had kept many things back from her and she is shocked to learn he had contracted HIV. While looking through his bundles of papers, she...

Sofia estaba sentada junto al fuego. Ahora las llamas la amenazaban. No eran cálidas y agradables, y ella sabía por qué. En la oscuridad, tumbada sobre una manta, se encontraba Rosa, su hermana mayor, que estaba enferma. De todos los hermanos, Rosa era a quien ella quería más. Rosa tenía diecisiete años, tres más que Sofia. con ella podía hablar...

Every morning Håkan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. Then, one day he fails to come home. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved but Håkan's son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months earlier Håkan was eager to talk to Kurt about a controversial incident from his past. Could this be conne...

A few days later what they have been warned of comes to pass: a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead.The dead men were Eastern European criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears in Sweden to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspec...