In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar o
f the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation and
no motive. Inspector Wallander and his team are called in to investigate.
As
Inspector Wallander is introduced to this missing person's case he has a gut fe
eling that the victim will never be found alive, but he has no idea how far he w
ill have to go in search of the killer. In South Africa, Nelson Mandela has made
his long walk to freedom, setting in train the country's painful journey toward
s the end of the apartheid. Wallander and his colleagues find themselves caught
up in a complex web involving renegade members of South Africa's secret service
and a former KGB agent, all of whom are set upon halting Mandela's rise to power
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