


The only initial clue is that the female victim said the word ‘foreigner’ just before she died. The main crime to be solved is the brutal torture and murder of an elderly farm couple who lived in an isolated house. And gaining weight because without his wife cooking, he eats only junk food. The detective’s elderly father lives alone in a farmhouse and is getting dementia, walking through the fields with suitcases in the night. He is estranged from his wayward daughter who travels around the world not telling her parents where she is and appearing unexpectedly for brief times. He may be falling in love with a beautiful young prosecutor, but she is married.

His wife left him three months ago and she is filing for divorce. But Swedish detective Kurt Wallander has so many things going on that it would take a full hour with Dr. All detectives have to have their personality quirks and personal problems to keep the story interesting.
