When two dead bodies show up in the Swedish town of Ystad, the aging and disheartened police detective Kurt Wallander begins to investigate the murders as the press attacks his reputation. Mankell ...

A taxi driver has been brutally stabbed as two teenage girls walk resolutely away, one holding a bloody knife. Inspector Kurt Wallander (Kenneth Branagh) questions Sonja Hokberg, the teen suspect, who ...

Firewall by Henning Mankell, translated by Ebba Segerberg 422pp, Harvill, £14.99 Two girls, 19 and 14, get into a taxi. On the outskirts of town one of them tells the driver to stop, she wants to sit ...

Kurt has been keeping me up late of recent nights; not a habit I usually maintain with ageing, doubt-ridden, irascible Swedish blokes. But then Kurt Wallander is a homicide investigator on Ystad's ...

Kurt Wallander is thrown into a world he does not master - the computing world. An empty taxi found, heavily bloodstained and battered. Two young girls are taken in for questioning and admits murder ...

Wallander: A "Masterpiece Mystery!" series. Starring Kenneth Branagh. "Sidetracked" 9 p.m. Sun.; "Firewall" 9 p.m. May 17 on KQED. There isn't anything horrifyingly wrong with "Wallander," the latest ...

British devotees of Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander thrillers have long complained that the series is translated out of sequence so that it is difficult for English speakers to keep proper track of ...

Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Kurt Wallander? Don’t worry, the peerless Swedish police detective, the pride of the force in rural Ystad, doesn’t get ruthlessly gunned down like Edward G.

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Henning Mankell's Swedish crime novels featuring Kurt Wallander sell millions, but his real passion ...

I sometimes wonder what would happen if all three television Wallanders were gathered together in the same room. The atmosphere would surely be bleak enough to extinguish all hope in anyone present.

In the sixth Kurt Wallander book to appear in English (One Step Behind, etc.), Mankell proves once again that spending time with a glum police inspector in chilly Sweden can be quite thrilling. In the ...