Midsummer approaches, and Inspector Kurt Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. But his restful summer plans are thrown into disarray when a teenage girl commits suicide before his eyes, and a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. Wallander's desperate hunt for the girl's identity and his furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him and those he loves most into mortal danger. WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER
Ulrich Pleitgen Book order (chronological)






Lie Down with Lions
- 485 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Jane, a brave and sensual Englishwoman, is caught in a deadly romantic triangle between rival spies Ellis and Jean-Pierre. Love, hatred and deception sweep them from terrorist conspiracies in Paris to full-tilt guerilla warfare in Afghanistan. Jean-Pierre and Jane marry and go to work as doctors in the Valley of the Five Lions to help the rebels fighting for their freedom against the Russians. Trapped between extremes of violence, lust and danger, Jane desperately tries to get out of the line of fire. Help comes unexpectedly, from her husband's greatest enemy. They soon become the centre of the action, as treachery seeks its prey. Follet builds the menacing tension to breaking point, leading to a confrontation that echoes all our nightmares.
Das verräterische Herz
Das verräterische Herz. Hörspiel
Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps the ultimate author for fans of gothic and macabre horror stories. Here is a carefully selected collection of his finest stories, this book includes, 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Tell Tale Heart', 'The Cask of Amontillado' and many more.
Edgar Allan Poe. Hörspiel - Folge 20
Die 1002. Erzählung
Leonie hat vor ihrer Abreise aus New Orleans eine Entdeckung gemacht, die tödliche Konsequenzen für Poe haben kann. Sie reist nach New York, um ihn zu warnen. In einem Hotel entdeckt sie im Gästebuch seinen Namenszug. Doch dann gerät sie in die Hände des verbrecherischen Dr. Baker. Er braucht Informationen - um sie zu bekommen, ist Baker ist zu allem entschlossen. Und Leonie muss um ihr Leben erzählen. (Amazon.de)
Eye of the Needle
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
An enemy spy code named "The Needle" knows the vital secret of the Allies deception and holds the key to Nazi victory.
Faceless killers
- 282 pages
- 10 hours of reading
As his personal life falls apart, Swedish Police Inspector Kurt Wallander is confronted with a hideous crime which has devastating repercussions. An elderly couple are brutally murdered in their remote farmhouse and the suspicion falls on the immigrant community.
Roses are Red
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
The sixth novel in the Alex Cross detective seriesA series of meticulously planned bank robberies ends in murder, and detective Alex Cross must pit his wits against the bizarre and sadistic mastermind behind the crimes.
One Step Behind
- 440 pages
- 16 hours of reading
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.
