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Durante la Seconda guerra mondiale un gruppo di giovani soldati norvegesi combatte a fianco dell'esercito tedesco alle porte di Leningrado. La battaglia li unisce, ma alla fine del conflitto uno strano omicidio e una diserzione sfaldano il gruppo. Quando, molti anni dopo, i monti intorno a Oslo restituiscono i bossoli di un Märklin, un fucile tedesco dI straordinaria precisione, ideale per un killer professionista, Harry Hole intuisce che dietro quel ritrovamento si nasconde qualcosa di più grosso. E, incastrando i pezzi del puzzle, si addentra in una palude di tradimenti e vendette da cui sarà difficile riemergere.

Staying alive becomes a precarious task for Inspector Kurt Wallander as he plays both hunter and hunted in a terrifying game of money and power. Two men have died and an enigmatic business tycoon who hides behind an entourage of brusque secretaries and tight security seems to be the link between the two deaths.

In una fredda giornata di gennaio, la polizia di Hudiksvall, nella Svezia centrale, scopre un orribile massacro: in un villaggio vicino alla foresta, diciannove persone sono state trucidate. Sembra il gesto di un folle. Quando a Helsingborg il magistrato Birgitta Roslin legge della strage, si rende conto che tra le vittime ci sono persone a lei molto vicine, e decide di occuparsi del caso. Il ritrovamento di un nastro di seta rossa la porta a Pechino, dove la scoperta di un diario la trascinerà indietro nel tempo, svelandole una terribile storia di schiavitù e soprusi. Coinvolta in un diabolico gioco politico, Birgitta dovrà confrontarsi con la brutalità del capitalismo selvaggio e dei nuovi potenti nella Cina di oggi, pronti a rivendicare il loro posto sulla scena internazionale.

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.

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)

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.

A moving, compelling and powerful new novel by the author of Depths and the Wallander Mysteries

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.

Herbert Molin, A Retired Police Officer, Is Living Alone In A Remote Cottage In The Vast Forests Of Northern Sweden. He Has Two Obsessions: One Is The Tango And The Other Is A Conviction That He Is Being Hunted, Constantly Pursued By 'Demons'. He Has No Close Friends, No Close Neighbours, And By The Time His Body Is Eventually Found, Molin Is Almost Unrecognisable. Lindman, A Police Officer On Extended Sick Leave, Hears Of The Death Of His Former Colleague And, To Take His Mind Off His Own Problems, Decides To Involve Himself In The Case. What He Discovers, To His Horror And Disbelief, Is A Network Of Evil Almost Unimaginable In This Remote District, And One Which Seems Impossible To Link To Molin'S Death.

Detective Wallander is haunted by the spectre of a murder he was unable to prevent as a young policeman. Years after the event, the daughter of the murder victim, now a heroin addict, dies of an overdose. A distressed Wallander is assigned to investigate the crash of a light airplane and a detonated armour piercing shell is found in the wreckage. A few days later, two elderly sisters are killed in an explosion in a sewing supplies shop. Traces of an advanced explosive are found in the burnt-out shop and evidence soon mounts to indicate that both events are tied to a showdown between two rival narcotics gangs.