Dick Hill
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On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is heinous. But after the victims are traced to the Baltic state of Latvia, a country gripped by the upheaval of Soviet disintegration, Major Liepa of the Riga police takes over the...
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In a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death and his wife left to die. As if this didn't present enough problems for Police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman's last word is foreign. This one tangible clue could also inflame Sweden's already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments.