The Pyramid

A Piper Cherokee airplane crashes down and starts to burn. All the passengers and the pilots are dead in a minute. Kurt Wallander at the police in Ystad, is introduced to the case.

After a time he realises that there is no plane missing.... At the same time, a house were two sisters live is burning. When the police arrive they find the house burning and the sisters dead. But when Nyberg searches the place he finds that the two burned sisters have bullets in their heads. Who has murdered two old sisters?

The book The Pyramid takes a step back, it tells about the life of Kurt Wallander before 1990. It tells about the time between 1969-1989, from the time when Wallander was a police at Malmö to that he meets his father at a Egyptian police station in Cairo.

Updated: May 10, 2005.