
He works tirelessly, eats badly and drinks the nights away in a lonely, neglected flat.

His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, even his ageing father barely tolerates him.

Kurt Wallander is a senior police officer at Ystad, a small town in the wind-lashed Swedish province of Skane. When this is leaked to the press, racial hatred is unleashed. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, victims of violence beyond reason. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. One frozen January Morning at 5 am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he expects is a routine call out.
