It hasn't been too long since single mother Carina moved from Malmö to Ystad to take over a restaurant by the sea. One night, however, her past catches up with her: On the beach in front of her restaurant...

Inspector Wallander is sweating it out for a stress ECG when he is called out on an assignment. Traces of blood at the crime scene, a small yacht, point to a brutal murder. But Louise Dyrander, the daughter of the yacht's owner, is missing...

Greger Stehn, a cranky old man, lives in a shack with his two four-legged friends despite having 20 million crowns in his bank account. For no apparent reason, Stehn suddenly has his fortune stolen in...

Linda Wallander makes a gruesome discovery during a routine check: nine refugees have suffocated to death in an abandoned truck container, only one baby has miraculously survived. The autopsy reveals that the people were still alive when...

The legendary war photographer Robert Thuresson, an eccentric, arrogant loner who still lives with his mother, exhibits his pictures to a local audience in Ystad for the first time. On the fringes of the vernissage, a ...

Johanna and her friend Sara, two young horse lovers, are shocked: the horse breeder Hermansson, with whom they were always allowed to ride for free, lies dead in his stable. The horseshoe-shaped wound on his head points to a...

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...