In the quiet countryside, Inspector Wallander confronts a horrific scene: an elderly couple murdered in their remote farmhouse.

Haunted by a fatal act committed while on duty, Inspector Wallander makes the decision to leave the police force. Soon after, a friend, a solicitor, approaches him with a request: to examine the circumstances surrounding his father’s death,…

Inspector Wallander examines the death of an elderly birdwatcher, discovered grotesquely impaled upon sharpened bamboo. The subsequent disappearance of another man forces Wallander to confront the chilling possibility that he is pursuing a …