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Un bot a la deriva amb dos homes morts encorbatats i estranyament abraçats apareix a la costa dYstad, territori policial de Kurt Wallander, linspector suec conegut per la seva manera particular i personalista de dur a terme els casos que li assigna latzar. Aquesta vegada, les pistes el porten cap a Riga, Letonia, on Lunic policia amb qui podia comptar, Karlis Liepa, es assassinat. Es lany 1991 i les ombres dun passatfeixuc planen sobre Letonia.Wallander es trobara enmig duna atmosfera sordida i es deixara arrossegar, per amor a una dona, cap al cor de la resistencia letona, que lobligara a viatjar amb una identitat falsa. I mentre els seus col.legues suecs es pensen que es als Alps esquiant per refer-se dun atac destres, Kurt Walllander intentara sobreviure a la persecucio implacable dels gossos de Riga.

Kurt Wallander passa per un dels moments més ombrívols de la seva existència –les seves relacions personals i familiars són desastroses, cada cop s’engreixa més, beu molt i dorm poc– quan ha de posar

Gustaf Torstensson, de professió advocat i a punt de jubilar-se, condueix una nit pels turons de Brösarps Backar, atemorit per unes ombres que el persegueixen. Pensa que ha de canviar de vida, pero t

Midsummer approaches, and Inspector Kurt Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him.

Voici, réunies en 1 volume, les deux premières aventures de l'enquêteur suédois mondialement célèbre, Kurt Watlander. Qu'il enquête dans une Scanie qui fustige ses réfugiés et succombe à la v

Showing all the hallmarks of her father - the maverick approach, the flaring temper - she becomes involved in the case and in the process is forced to confront a group of extremists bent on punishing

When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him; he ate badly and drank alone at night. The Pyramid chronicles the events that led him to such a place. We see him in the early years, doing hours on the beat whilst trying to solve a murder off-duty; witness the beginnings of his fragile relationship with Mona, the woman he has his heart set on marrying; and learn the reason behind his difficulties with his father. These thrilling tales provide a fascinating insight into Wallander's character, and demand to be read in one sitting. From the stabbing of a neighbour in 1969 to a light aircraft accident in 1989, every story is a vital piece of the Wallander series, showing Mankell at the top of his game. Featuring an introduction from the author, The Pyramid is an essential read for all fans of Kurt Wallander.

The Pyramid is a collection of 5 short stories plus an additional prologue. It tells about the time between 1969-1989, from the time when Wallander was a police at Malmö to that he meets his father at a Egyptian police station in Cairo "The Pyramid", es una recopilación de cinco relatos cortos además de un prólogo adicional. Nos relata acerca del período entre 1969 y 1989, desde los tiempos en que Wallander era policía en Malmö al momento en que conoce a su padre en una comisaría de policía en El Cairo.

When Louise Cantor finds her 28-year-old son dead in his apartment, everything indicates it was a suicide. Louise, however, refuses to accept this. She and her ex-husband set out to find what happened, and soon discover a dark underworld where suddenly their own lives are at stake.

First in the Kurt Wallander series. It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn't present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman's last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have-and in the process, the match that could inflame Sweden's already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments. Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has peaked his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve.

Automne 1914. La Suède, malgré sa neutralité, craint d'être entraînée dans la guerre, car les flottes allemande et russe s'affrontent au large de ses côtes. Le capitaine Lars Tobiasson-Svartman reçoit la mission de sonder les fonds de la mer Baltique et de chercher une route maritime secrète à travers l'archipel d'Östergöland. L'homme est hanté par l'idée de contrôle qu'il exerce en mesurant tout ce qui l'entoure, les masses, le temps, les distances entre les lieux, les objets et les êtres (sa femme Kristina restée à Stockholm). Mais lorsqu'il découvre Sara Fredrika vivant seule sur une île désolée, la présence de cette femme très vite l'obsède et il devient son amant. Le fragile couvercle qu'il maintenait sur son " abîme " intérieur se soulève et son univers tiré au cordeau vole en éclats. D'allers et retours entre l'île et Stockholm, il s'invente des missions secrètes. De mensonge en mensonge - à Sara Fredrika, à Kristina, qui perd la raison, à l'amirauté qui le pousse à démissionner -, Tobiasson perd pied, sombre dans la folie et se suicide par noyade. Dans ce récit sobre et parfaitement construit, porté par une intensité émotionnelle constante, Mankell se mesure ici avec les plus grands auteurs suédois contemporains, Torgny Lindgren et Per Olof Enquist.

L'aventura vital d'aquest noi, en Joel, és un relat que emociona i destil·la sensibilitat de manera creixent. El misteri d'una mare absent, l'anhel de fugir mar enllà, la peculiar relació amb el seu pare... són alguns dels fils conductors d'aquesta història sobre el pas de l'adolescència al món adult. Com diu el Die Zeit, "es crea un clima de forta tensió narrativa, una obra mestra feta de frases breus". El viatge d'en Joel inclou les novel·les: El gos que corria cap a un estel Les ombres creixen al capvespre El noi que dormia a la neu Viatge a la fi del món

Hans Olofson is the son of a Swedish lumberjack. His childhood was unsettled: an alcoholic father, and a mother disappeared, only alive in old photographs. His adolescence was no easier as he lost both his best friend and his lover tragically. Alone and adrift, as a young man his only desire is to fulfil his lover's dream and visit the grave of a legendary missionary who survived alone in the remote hills of Northern Zambia. On reaching Africa, Olofson is struck by its beauty and mystery. After fulfilling his initial quest, an opportunity of employment in the region tempts him to stay. Time passes quickly. Though dismayed by the attitude of the white population to their adopted country, which is compounded by their vulnerability to alcohol and malaria, he is interested enough to take up sole responsibility for the farm he manages.For almost two decades Hans Olofson battles with a hostile environment and a placid, but resistant workforce. Set in the 1970s and 1980s, "The Eye of the Leopard" explores the relationship between the white farmers and their native workers. Through Olofson's descent into near mental collapse it becomes clear that many years spent in a foreign land do not necessarily breed an understanding of its people: a handful of generations of white settlers cannot change a continent underpinned by myth and superstition. "The Eye of the Leopard" is a first-rate and original psychological thriller delving deep into the mind of a man lost in an unknown world.

One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a crime unprecedented in Swedish history. When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved and decides to investigate. A nineteenth-century diary and a red silk ribbon found in the forest nearby are the only clues. What Birgitta eventually uncovers leads her into an international web of corruption and a story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years, linking China and the USA of the 1860s with modern-day Beijing, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and coming to a shocking climax in London's Chinatown. The Man from Beijing is both a gripping and perceptive political thriller and a compelling detective story. It shows Henning Mankell at the height of his powers, handling a broad historical canvas and pressing international issues with his exceptional gifts for insight and chilling suspense.