One Step Behind

Faceless Killers

By: Henning Mankell & Steven T. Murray
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

It was a crime of senseless violence. On a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer was bludgeoned to death, his wife left to die with a noose around her neck. As if this didn’t present enough problems for Ystad police inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word, his only tangible clue, was “foreign.” If publicized,... Read more »

The Dogs of Riga

By: Henning Mankell & Laurie Thompson
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No

In this case, only Wallander’s obstinate desire to see that justice is done brings the truth to light.

On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to... Read more »

The White Lioness

By: Henning Mankell & Laurie Thompson
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 17 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No

The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case, except that there is no obvious suspect. Wallander follows a lead on a determined stalker, but when his alibi turns out to be airtight, Wallander begins to realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex and dangerous. Eventually, his... Read more »

The Man Who Smiled

By: Henning Mankell & Laurie Thompson
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No

A disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander is thrown back into the fray as both hunter and hunted in this fourth adventure from Sweden’s master of crime and mystery.

Crestfallen, dejected, and spiraling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Wallander had made up his mind to quit the police force for... Read more »

Sidetracked

By: Henning Mankell & Steven T. Murray
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 14 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

Detective Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former minister of justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious... Read more »

The Fifth Woman

By: Henning Mankell & Steven T. Murray
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 17 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No

In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered, and the death of the unknown woman is covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two strange murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles... Read more »

One Step Behind

By: Henning Mankell & Ebba Segerberg
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 16 hours
Abridged: No

On Midsummer’s Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander’s most trusted colleagues, someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime, also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related. But with his only clue a picture of a woman... Read more »

Firewall

By: Henning Mankell & Ebba Segerberg
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 16 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No

A body is found at an ATM, the apparent victim of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime, showing no remorse whatsoever. Two open-and-shut cases.

At first, these incidents seem to have nothing in common. But as Wallander delves deeper into the mystery of why the... Read more »

The Pyramid

By: Henning Mankell, Ebba Segerberg & Laurie Thompson
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 15 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No

This collection of five stories traces the growth of Swedish Inspector Kurt Wallander into a first-rate detective, from rookie cop to young father to middle-aged divorcé, illuminating new facets of a now-canonical character.

In “Wallander’s First Case,” the twenty-one-year-old patrolman’s first homicide case involves his next-door neighbor,... Read more »