Bertie van der Meij Book order (chronological)

1. De chirurgijn van de koningin2. De komediant van de koning3. Zus en broerBundeling van drie verhalen over Pleijels Zweedse familie: van Herman Schützer, lijfarts van de koningin; over toneelspeler Lars Hjortsberg, lieveling van de koning; tot Lars’ kleinkinderen, de doofstomme Albert en de muzikale Helena. Albert strijdt tegen zijn beperkingen, Helena tegen de regels van hun strenge vader.

Kurt Wallander is back, and this time he must discover why a girl has doused herself in petrol and burned herself to death, and solve the mystery behind the savage murder of a former government minister.

The wonderful women are Bella, married, mother of seven-year-old Thomas, and Rosa, married, mother of two daughters, including the enterprising Renee. The story opens in the summer of 1961, and covers the years in which their children grow into young adults through to the 1970s.

This novel, written in 1974 and now published for the first time in English, is the first volume of a tetralogy which follows a Swedish community through a hundred years of recent history to the present day.