The mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama
Young Wallander - From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the second
riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally
acclaimed Kurt Wallander series.
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 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 investigation. Thinking his work done,
Wallander slips into routine once more, until suddenly, he is called to
Riga and plunged into an alien world where shadows are everywhere,
everything is watched, and old regimes will do anything to stay alive.