A life raft washes ashore in Skåne carrying two dead Eastern European criminals, killed gangland-style. Investigating, Inspector Kurt Wallander enters into an alien world of threats, police surveillance, and life-endangering lies. AudioFile names this one of 2007's top mysteries. Second in the series. "[Hill's] tone darkens astutely as Wallander begins spiraling deeper into the political underworld of the bewildering country he is reluctantly immersed in."—AudioFile