The story begins in the seventies, when Wallander has just successfully completed police school. His wife Mona is expecting a child. The couple's best friends, Arne and Ranghild, have also just become parents and the mood...

Wallander has been feeling physically worse and worse lately. Just now, when all his strength and attention are required, as an explosive case of international proportions lands on his desk...

Dressed in 18th century costumes, three young people celebrate the myth-enshrouded Midsummer. No one has seen them since that day. At first, no cause for concern for Inspector Wallander...

Lawyer Sten Torstensson asks his friend Inspector Kurt Wallander for help after his father is killed in a car accident at night. Torstensson doesn't believe it was an accident...

It In southern Sweden, far away from the crowds, crimes are taking place that can make even a hardened crime specialist lose sleep. A serial killer is on the loose. Kurt Wallander sets off for the idyllic province of Schon....

The incomprehensible happens in a rape field: On one of the warmest days of late summer, Inspector Kurt Wallander has to watch as a young girl pours gasoline over herself and sets herself on fire in front of him....

When Inspector Wallander finds the severed finger of a black man in a burnt-down farmhouse and the body of a blameless woman turns up shortly afterwards, he has no idea that he is part of a large-scale political conspiracy....

Two smugglers discover a lifeboat with two dead young men on the high seas. Fearing discovery, they tow the boat close to the coast and anonymously alert the police...

In Lenarp, a small village in southern Sweden, an old farmer couple is brutally attacked at night. The bestially executed man is already dead, the woman is critically injured. Her last words before she dies of her injuries in hospital are...