Neklidný muž – Mankell Henning (2012)

The Last Case of the World-Famous Commissioner Wallander One winter day in 2008, a retired high-ranking naval officer disappears in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation is handled by the Stockholm police, and Commissioner Wallander has nothing to do with it – officially. Except that the missing officer was to become his daughter's father-in-law. Thus, Wallander, with his characteristic aversion to standard procedures, soon gets entangled in matters that officially do not concern him, makes promises he cannot keep, lies when necessary – and it works for him. Until he stumbles upon confusing espionage activities linked to the Cold War... Wallander also struggles not only with the case but with himself. Since crossing sixty, he feels he is on the brink of senility. Desperately, he clings to the hope embodied by his recently born granddaughter, but at the same time, the past increasingly catches up with him. He looks to the future with great uncertainty, and it seems inevitable that he must face his most rebellious opponent: himself. Henning Mankell created one of the most interesting characters in contemporary detective fiction in Commissioner Wallander. Mankell has won the Swedish Academy's Prize for Detective Literature twice, for...