This collection of novellas and short stories covers a wide time frame in the career of Swedish Police Detective Kurt Wallander. Beginning with his first serious work on a murder investigation as a young police officer and continuing through the early days of his marriage, and the separation and divorce from his wife. Wallander suffers through attacks by the perpetrators, including a near fatal stabbing. In the five mysteries he solves the mysterious death of his neighbor, the poisoning of a businessman, the beating death of a photographer, a convenience store robbery gone deadly, and the connection between a plane crash and a pair of murdered sisters. I found these stories engrossing and very readable. The characters of Wallander, his police colleagues and the perpetrators of the crimes are believable and very human. My only complaint is the author's use of suicide in wrapping up the mystery in more than one of the stories.
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