The day begins with trouble for Detective Wallander and his colleagues: Because the gas tank on his car has been broken into and pumped dry, Wallander is just as late for work as his friend and colleague Martinsson, who...

The election campaign is underway in Ystad. The Social Democratic Party is preparing an appearance by politician Kenneth Nilsson under the strictest security precautions. As if that wasn't enough stress for the local police, a...

An abandoned child is discovered in a car on a country road near Ystad. There is no trace of the child's driver and father, boat builder Carl Svendsen, and the mother has been missing since the suicide of her 14-year-old sister...

During a routine assignment, Inspector Wallander meets his childhood sweetheart Carolina again, who spurned him to marry the rich Olof Wachtmann. Shortly afterwards, Carolina and her husband are cruelly murdered...

A mentally retarded man, known as "Astro-Göran" because of his fondness for zodiac signs, enters the Ystad savings bank. He carries a bomb on his person and forces the transfer of the rather modest sum of...

Inspector Kurt Wallander has once again looked too deeply into the glass and promptly missed his daughter Linda's police school exam. So the meeting between father and daughter is not under a good star...