When his daughter's future father-in-law goes missing in a forest near Stockholm, brilliant detective Kurt Wallander takes matters in his own hands and gets results. But his findings hint at elaborate Cold War espionage activities.

Henning Mankell's novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold more than thirty million copies worldwide. He is the first winner of the Ripper Award (the new European prize for crime fiction) and has also received the Glass Key and Golden Dagger awards. His Kurt Wallander mysteries were adapted into a PBS television series starring Kenneth Branagh. Mankell divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique.

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