269:. Wallander’s investigation leads him to an elderly home where he meets the son of the Estonian travelers Ivar Pihlak, who had announced his parents' departure. After speaking to Pihlak, Wallander returns to the police station, where he later learns that Pihlak has gone missing. Wallander tracks him to the house where the bodies were uncovered, and is then assaulted and knocked out by Pihlak. After Wallander regains consciousness, Pihlak confesses: his father, a controlling man, murdered his mother. In retaliation, Pihlak killed his father. He buried both bodies in the backyard of the house he was staying in. Now fearful that he will be jailed for his crime, he attempts to shoot Wallander. However, Pihlak’s gun explodes in his hand, killing him and leaving Wallander shaken but unscathed.
249:, aging Detective Kurt Wallander discovers a body when a skeletal hand surfaces in the garden of a house he is looking to buy. Forensics expert Stina Hurlén identifies the skeleton as having belonged to a woman of about fifty who had been hanged. After surveying the garden again, Wallander later discovers another skeleton, this one belonging to a man of around the same age as the first skeleton and who had been buried for the same amount of time. Wallander questions neighbors and dives into the records of the home to discover who was killed, when, and who the murderer was. During his investigation, he runs into a
381:. These books have been adapted into two different Swedish television series and one English television series produced by the BBC. Mankell was a left-wing political activist, and split his time between Sweden and Africa, most often Mozambique, where he opened and financially supported a local theater. The character of Kurt Wallander was created as a response to what Mankell saw as an increase in racist sentiment in Sweden. Mankell publicly announced that he had been diagnosed with cancer in 2014. He died on the 5th of October, 2015.
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