****The eleventh riveting installment in the mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama* Young Wallander **• **** *Wallander is “one of the most impressive creations in crime fiction today…. An old-fashioned moral force and sense of disquiet of the sort rarely found in contemporary crime fiction.” — *The Guardian*** After nearly thirty years in the same job, Inspector Kurt Wallander is tired, restless, and itching to make a change. He is taken with a certain old farmhouse, perfectly situated in a quiet countryside with a charming, overgrown garden. There he finds the skeletal hand of a corpse in a shallow grave. Wallander’s investigation takes him deep into the history of the house and the land, until finally the shocking truth about a long-buried secret is brought to light. Includes an afterword by the author.