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)
Reader's Digest Condensed BooksVolume 1: 1979Series volume 122Eye of the Needle - Ken FollettOrphan Train - James Magnuson & Dorothea PetrieOverload - Arthur HaileyA Dangerous Magic - Frances Lynch
Faceless Killers
- 280 pages
- 10 hours of reading
The first case of Inspector Kurt Wallander. He drinks too much, he works too hard, and he sleeps too little. His life is a shambles. But all of a sudden these are the least of his worries. Wallander is a senior police officer at Ystad, a small town in the wind- lashed Swedish province of Skåne. His wife has left him, his daughter won't speak to him, his ageing father barely tolerates him. Then, at 5 a.m. on a frozen January morning, he responds to a routine call. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death in his isolated farmhouse; his wife is lying barely alive beside him. Wallander has one clue: the killers may have been foreign. When this information is leaked, xenophobia is unleashed in Skåne, and Wallander finds himself in a race against time: solve the crimes or the death toll will rise. --back cover
Roses are red
- 416 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Detective Alex Cross's investigation of a series of bank robberies in Washington, D.C. which have led to the deaths of bank employees and their family members, puts him on a collision course with the mysterious criminal known as "The Mastermind."