The diagnosis is as clear as it is shocking: Alzheimer's disease. Kurt Wallander must now come to terms with the fact that his life will soon change radically. Although surprisingly calm, he doesn't find the opportunity to tell his daughter Linda. As he is still pondering the appropriate words, she beats him to it with further worrying news: her father-in-law Hakan von Enke has disappeared without a trace...

Inspector Wallander and his young colleague Tobias Eliasson make a gruesome discovery in a ditch by the side of the road: the body of a woman who has been stabbed to death lies there. She lived in seclusion with her daughter Hannah in a nearby village. Wallander learns from neighbors that the murdered woman and a local motorcycle club were at odds with each other...

For days there has been no trace of the missing teacher Inga Hedeman, who works in the townships of Cape Town. Inspector Wallander, currently in South Africa for a conference, is willingly asked for help by the local police: he is to reassure Inga's husband, the social worker Axel...

Retired cartographer Birgitta Medberg is exploring an old pilgrimage route when a surreal apparition catches her attention: burning swans flying over a forest lake. This is her last observation, as the person responsible for the apparition kills the witness and buries her body in the forest...

Two bodies wash up on the Swedish coast in a rubber dinghy. Since they are apparently Latvian drug couriers, the Ystad police involve an officer from Riga in the investigation. When Karlis Liepa identifies the dead men as former informants, he feels responsible for their murder...

Together with his partner Vanja, Wallander has bought a cozy house by the sea. The moving boxes have not yet been unpacked when his dog Jussi finds the buried remains of a woman's body in the front garden. The detective actually wanted to focus more on his private life...

Wallander has already experienced a lot, but this time even he is shocked: Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and writer of well-behaved nature poetry, has been pierced by sharpened bamboo sticks in a pile pit. The investigation is overshadowed by the death of his father Povel, with whom the detective had a broken relationship...

Wallander is in the midst of his worst crisis yet. He can't cope with the fact that he had to shoot a man in self-defense. Drunk on alcohol and pills, the traumatized policeman spends his days in a remote boarding house. Even a visit from his old friend Sten Torstensson fails to shake him out of his lethargy...

Kurt Wallander is certainly not xenophobic. But when his daughter Linda introduces him to her Syrian boyfriend Jamal over dinner, he can barely hide his bias. An emergency call frees him from the embarrassing situation. An old couple on a remote farm have been attacked and savagely mauled...

A clique of teenagers who wanted to be particularly cool celebrated the myth-enshrouded Midsummer in 18th century costumes. They have since disappeared, which is initially no cause for concern for Inspector Wallander...

17-year-old Sonja Hokberg killed cab driver Johan Lundberg with a friend. Under interrogation, she shows not the slightest remorse and claims that she needed money. But the amount of money she stole is ridiculous and Sonja's parents are wealthy. Wallander finds out that the young woman has taken revenge...

Wallander is shocked: a completely terrified young woman hiding in a rape field pours petrol over herself in front of him and sets herself alight. What could have motivated the 15-year-old to kill herself in such a gruesome way?