Wallander’s family

Mona – ex-wife
Linda – his daughter
Kasja – Linda’s friend
Father
Sister
Gertrud – Kurt’s father’s wife
Mother – deceased
Baiba – Kurt’s girlfriend, widow of a Latvian police officer

Police officers and other professionals

Björk – retiring chief of Ystad police, new head of immigration affair
Lisa Holgersson – new chair of Ystad police joining the station at the end of the summer
Hansson – acting chief of Ystad police force
Rydberg – Kurt’s mentor, deceased
Nyberg – head of forsenics
Ann Britt Hőglund – only female detective in Ystad
Martinsson – detective especially worried about police cut backs
Svedberg
Per Ǻkeson - from the prosecutor’s office
Norėn
Malmstrőm – doctor at the morgue in Malmö
Mats Ekholm – psychologist
Ebba – receptionist at Ystad police station