The Troubled ManEvery morning Hkan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. Then, one day he fails to come home. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved but Hkan's son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months earlier Hkan was eager to talk to Kurt about a controversial incident from his past. Could this be connected to his disappearance? When Hkan's wife also goes missing, Wallander is determined to uncover the truth but

The Russian Doll constantly wrong-foots the reader and delivers a perfect narrative

Wendell Stickney

and riveting as Frankenstein itself LAURIE LICO ALBANESE

the shadowy figure of Damyata is never far away

The job looked simple: to protect the naive daughter of an investment banker from a ruthless gang of kidnappers

no government can afford bad press

full of magnificent sea-battles

in death as in life

the young policeman's self-doubt and the Searcher's strange obsession creates a darkly compelling psychological drama

He even ends up on a fire

This was forbidden

the jewel of the Trade Federation