Giorgio Puleo Book order (chronological)

Durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, un gruppo di giovani soldati norvegesi era stato scelto e inviato a combattere a fianco dell’esercito tedesco alle porte di Leningrado. Una volta tornati in patria, quegli uomini avevano trovato ad attenderli un’accusa di alto tradimento e il carcere duro. Ora, a distanza di sessant’anni, quell’inferno non è ancora finito, e uno dopo l’altro iniziano a morire in circostanze oscure. In questa torbida vicenda si imbatte Harry Hole, poliziotto dell’antiterrorismo dal grilletto facile e con un debole per l’alcol. Lui la violenza è abituato a guardarla negli occhi ogni giorno, senza tregua. E mentre indaga sulla minaccia di un attentato ai danni dei reali di Norvegia, che si fa ogni giorno più concreta, uno strano ritrovamento attira la sua attenzione: i monti intorno a Oslo gli restituiscono alcuni bossoli di un Märklin, un fucile di precisione tedesco di cui erano stati costruiti solo trecento esemplari. E sulle tracce di quest’insolita arma si addentrerà in una palude di tradimenti e vendette da cui sarà difficile riemergere.

After killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression. He has just decided to leave the police when an old friend approaches him for help investigating his father's suspicious death. Kurt doesn't want to know. But then his friend is found shot dead. Against his better judgment, he returns to work to head what may now have become a double murder case. But while Wallander is on the trail of the killer, somebody is on the trail of Wallander, and closing in fast.

It is a freezing December night and Christmas shoppers have gathered tolisten to a Salvation Army carol concert. Then a shot rings out and one of thesingers falls to the floor, dead. Detective Harry Hole and his team are calledin to investigate but have little to work with - there is no immediatesuspect, no weapon and no motive. But when the assassin discovers he's shotthe wrong man, Harry finds his troubles have only just begun.

The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell’s brilliant, brooding detective, Kurt Wallander. On a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation into his disappearance falls under the jurisdiction of the Stockholm police. It has nothing to do with Wallander—officially. But von Enke is his daughter’s future father-in-law. And so, with his inimitable disregard for normal procedure, Wallander is soon interfering in matters that are not his responsibility, making promises he won’t keep, telling lies when it suits him—and getting results. But the results hint at elaborate Cold War espionage activities that seem inextricably confounding, even to Wallander, who, in any case, is troubled in more personal ways as well. Negligent of his health, he’s become convinced that, having turned sixty, he is on the threshold of senility. Desperate to live up to the hope that a new granddaughter represents, he is continually haunted by his past. And looking toward the future with profound uncertainty, he will have no choice but to come face-to-face with his most intractable adversary: himself.

"In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been found dead. 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 her only clues"--Cover.

A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star a pentagram, the devils star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on notice to quit the force and is left with little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor and get to work. A wave of similar murders is on the horizon. An emerging pattern suggests that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands, and the five-pointed devils star is key to solving the riddle.

A TV talk-show star is found killed in her home, her tongue removed and left near to the body. When a second body, that of a prominent politician, is found crucified soon after, Superintendent Adam Stubo is called in to lead the investigation of both murders. Unable to establish whether these two gruesome slayings are linked, or what the meaning is behind the manner of death, Stubo calls in his psychologist wife Johanne Vik to help. As Vik reviews the crimes she begins to see a pattern that chills her to the core. If her theory is correct then more killings will follow, and the spree will end in the murder of the investigating officer: Adam Stubo. From internationally bestselling author Anne Holt, The Final Murder is a dark and gripping novel.

Sven-Erik Cederén is eigenaar van het medisch instituut MedForsk. Hij wordt gezien als de moordenaar van zijn vrouw en dochtertje. Daarna zou hij zelfmoord hebben gepleegd. Als MedForsk door actievoerders opgedragen wordt te stoppen met illegale dierproeven, heropent rechercheur Ann Lindell het moordonderzoek.

The gripping third instalment in Anne Holt's Vik/Stubo series. When the first female US president is kidnapped on a state visit to Norway, Johanne Vik and Adam Stubo must race against time to prevent a national security crisis.

"The Redbreast is a fabulous introduction to Nesbø’s tough-as-nails series protagonist, Oslo police detective Harry Hole. A brilliant and epic novel, breathtaking in its scope and design—winner of The Glass Key for best Nordic crime novel and selected as the best Norwegian crime novel ever written by members of Norway’s book clubs—The Redbreast is a chilling tale of murder and betrayal that ranges from the battlefields of World War Two to the streets of modern-day Oslo. Follow Hole as he races to stop a killer and disarm a ticking time-bomb from his nation’s shadowy past."--Goodreads.com.

Una fredda e buia sera di ottobre nel sud della Scania. L'avvocato Gustaf Torstensson sta tornando a casa dopo una visita a un cliente. All'improvviso scorge una figura legata a una sedia al centro della strada. Con una brusca frenata evita la collisione. Scende dall'auto, fa alcuni passi e viene colpito violentemente alla nuca. Il giorno successivo, l'avvocato viene trovato morto all'interno della sua macchina capovolta in un campo. Nel frattempo, il commissario Kurt Wallander vaga irrequieto su una spiaggia a Skagen all'estremo nord della Danimarca. Da mesi è in preda a una forte depressione. Si sente finito, è deciso a porre termine alla sua carriera di poliziotto.

From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander series comes a touching and intimate story about an embattled man’s unexpected chance at redemption. Many years ago a devastating mistake drove Fredrik Welin into a life as far as possible from his former position as a surgeon, where he mistakenly amputated the wrong arm of one of his patients. Now he lives in a frozen landscape. Each morning he dips his body into the freezing lake surrounding his home to remind himself he’s alive. However, Welins’s icy existence begins to thaw when he receives a visit from a guest who helps him embark on a journey to acceptance and understanding. Full of the graceful prose and deft characterization that have been the hallmarks of Mankell’s prose, Italian Shoes shows a modern master at the height of his powers, effortlessly delivering a remarkable novel about the most rewarding theme of all: hope.

From the dean of Scandinavian noir, come s a riveting mystery set in frozen north of Sweden. .When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snow — as if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young police officer recently diagnosed with mouth cancer, decides to investigate the murder of his former colleague, but is soon enmeshed in a mystifying case with no witnesses and no apparent motives. Terrified of the disease that could take his life, Lindman becomes more and more reckless as he unearths the chilling links between Molin’s death and an underground neo-Nazi network that runs further and deeper than he could ever have imagined.

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.

Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi dirver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked - somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective. The search for answers leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow these criminals seem always to know the police's next move. Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them In their gripping police procedural about our increasing vulnerability in the modern digitalised world.

Dopo una serata trascorsa in un locale, due ragazze, di cui una minorenne, aggrediscono un tassista con un martello e lo finiscono a coltellate. Il commissario Wallander non riesce a crederci, incapace di trovare una logica nei gesti dei nuovi assassini, ma è sicuro che quell'omicidio nasconda qualcosa. Altri delitti lo coinvolgono in indagini sempre più complesse: il cadavere di un uomo viene trafugato dall'obitorio e riportato ai piedi del Bancomat dove era stato ritrovato; qualche, giorno dopo, in seguito a un imponente blackout, in una centrale elettrica si scopre il corpo carbonizzato di una ragazza. Diversi tasselli di un unico disegno. Per ricomporlo, Wallander deve affrontare una nuova dimensione del crimine.

Maggio 1993: in Algeria i fondamentalisti islamici uccidono quattro suore. La quinta donna massacrata è una turista svedese. La polizia algerina cerca di insabbiare il caso. Settembre 1994: una serie di orribili delitti scuote il sud della Svezia. Un anziano signore, appassionato bird-watcher, cade in una trappola feroce. Il suo corpo viene ritrovato in pasto ai corvi, trapassato da canne di bambù. Qualche giorno dopo, nel bosco, legato a un albero si scopre il cadavere di un FIorista: è stato strangolato. Non passa molto tempo che il corpo senza vita di un ricercatore dell’università riafFIora, chiuso in un sacco, tra le acque di un lago. Omicidi crudeli, perpetrati con una tecnica che non lascia dubbi sull’esistenza di un unico colpevole. Apparentemente non esiste un movente, né s’intravedono elementi che permettano di trovare una relazione tra le vittime. Tocca ancora al commissario Wallander, del distretto di Ystad, aprire un faticoso spiraglio tra le indagini e mettere insieme i pezzi di una storia incredibile. Aiutato da una collega molto efFIciente, Kurt Wallander scoprirà quale sconcertante FIlo leghi il passato degli uomini caduti per mano di un oscuro assassino.

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Stockholm 1975: Six young people take the entire staff of the West German embassy hostage, demanding that the Baader-Meinhof members being held as prisoners in West Germany be released immediately. The long siege ends with the deaths of two hostages and the wounding of several others, including the captors.

CRIME & MYSTERY. In peaceful Southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation and no motive. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. As Inspector Wallander is introduced to this missing person's case, he has a gut feeling that the victim will never be found alive. In South Africa, Nelson Mandela has made his long walk to freedom, setting in train the country's painful journey towards the end of Apartheid. Wallander and his colleagues find themselves caught up in a complex web involving renegade members of South Africa's secret service and a former KGB agent, all of whom are set upon halting Mandela's rise to power. In an increasingly globalised world, Wallander and his team are faced with international terrorism which knows no frontiers - they must prevent a hideous crime that means to dam the tide of history.

One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call-out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When this is leaked to the press, it unleashes racial hatred. Kurt Wallander is a senior police officer. His life is a shambles. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, and even his aging father barely tolerates him. He works tirelessly, eats badly, and drinks his night away in a lonely, neglected flat. But now, with winter tightening and his activities being monitored by a tough-minded district attorney, Wallander must forget his troubles and throw himself into a battle against time and against mounting xenophobia. (back cover)

Una fredda e buia sera di ottobre nel sud della Scania. L'avvocato Gustaf Torstensson sta tornando a casa dopo una visita a un cliente. All'improvviso scorge una figura legata a una sedia al centro della strada. Con una brusca frenata evita la collisione. Scende dall'auto, fa alcuni passi e viene colpito violentemente alla nuca. Il giorno successivo, l'avvocato viene trovato morto all'interno della sua macchina capovolta in un campo. Nel frattempo, il commissario Kurt Wallander vaga irrequieto su una spiaggia a Skagen all'estremo nord della Danimarca. Da mesi è in preda a una forte depressione. Si sente finito, è deciso a porre termine alla sua carriera di poliziotto.

It is winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team at the Ystad police station in Skane, southern Sweden, receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later what they have been warned of comes to pass: a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead

It is Midsummer's Eve, three young friends gather in a wood. In the still-sunlit, Scandanavian dusk, they don costumes joyfully to enact - or so it appears to an unseen observer - a kind of masque. The hidden watcher soon brings their performance to an end. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect - three bullets, three corpses. The murderer, then, carefully photographs the grisly tableau. The Ystad police station, meanwhile, is experiencing a summer lull, indeed Inspector Wallander is at last at liberty to attend to - albeit reluctantly - his deteriorating health, but his peace of mind is shattered when one of his colleagues is murdered. An unknown killer, seen by no-one, is on the loose, and the police's only lead is a photograph of three dead young people in costume. Forced to dig more deeply than he would have wanted into the personal life of one of his colleagues, Wallander's investigation reveals something none of his team could ever have imagined. However, they remain tantalisingly, terrifyingly one step behind the lethal progress of a killer Wallander would have to suppose was deranged if his methods were not so meticulous and his victims so clinically targeted.