news - rules - join - codes - members - about the books - about the author - links/affiliates About the books For film information and more please visit one of the links ! The Wallander series contains the following books: Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell won the Swedish Academy of Crime Literature award for Faceless Killers. One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he expects 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 ageing father barely tolerates him. He works tirelessly, eats badly and drinks his nights away in a lonely, neglected flat. But now, with winter tightening and his activieties being monitored by a toughminded district attorney, Wallander must forget his troubles and throw himself into a battle against time and against mounting xenophobia. The dogs of Riga It is winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander's team at the Ystad police station face a new challenge: two corpses, frozen together in a gruesome embrace, have been washed ashore on the remote Swedish coastline. The dead men were Eastern European criminals, but what looks like a gangland hit takes on a much more sinister aspect when Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea to Latvia, a nation in the throws of the massive upheaval that will lead to its independence from the Soviet Union. Wallander is thrown into an icy, alien world of police surveillance, veiled threats and lies, coming to understand what it is to live in a nation in which democracy is still a dream. Only his dogged, almost subconscious desire to see justice done will lead him to the shadowy figures he pursues. The white lioness 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 persons case, he has a gut feeling that the victim will never be found alive, but he has no conception of how far he will have to go in search of the killer. In South Africa, meanwhile, Nelson Mandela has made his long walk to freedom. Wallander finds himself caught up in a conspiracy involving renegade members of the South African secret service and a former KGB agent, all of them set upon halting Mandela's rise to power. Faced with a world in which terrorism knows no frontiers, Wallander must prevent a hideous crime that means to dam the tide of history. Mannen som log (The Man Who Smiled) Sidetracked - Henning Mankell won the CWA Gold Dagger 2001 for Sidetracked. A girl commits suicide in baffling circumstances. Three vicious murders shatter the tranquillity of the Swedish province of Skane. Is there a connection? Inspector Kurt Wallander must find out. Midsummer approaches, and 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 summer is ruined when a 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 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. The fifth woman Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage night-time attack. Month later in Sweden, the news of the unexplained tragedy sets off a cruel vengeance for these killings. Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles in, and Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly bird-watcher he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then another man is reported missing. And once again Wallander's life is on hold as he and his team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of vicious murders. Making progress through dogged police work and forever battling to make sense of the violence of modern Sweden, Wallander leads a massive investigation to find a killer whose crimes are the product of new realities that make him despair. One step behind It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspectors Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is this the same killer, and what could the connection be? In this investigation, Wallander is always, tantalisingly, one step behind. Firewall Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A girl held in police custody escapes and disappears without trace. An unexpected blackout leaves half the country in darkness and when the engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station he makes a grisly discovery... Inspector Wallander is sure that these events must be linked somehow. As he searches for answers he gets dangerously involved with a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. The terrorists always seem to be one step ahead of the police's next move and only Wallander can be counted on to outsmart them. Händelse om hösten (The Grave) This is a short novel of approximately 90 pages which was distributed as a complimentary gift to readers in The Netherlands who purchased other crime novels during the month of June 2004. Pyramiden (The Pyramid) The Pyramid is a collection of 5 short stories plus an additional prologue (written especially for German fans "Die Pyramide and Wallanders erster Fall und andere Erzählungen") which gives readers more insight into the personal life of Kurt Wallander.