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Wallander

edited 2026-06-19

A complete reading and viewing order for the Wallander franchise — Henning Mankell's 11 Kurt Wallander novels and short story collection, plus four independent screen adaptations: the Swedish SVT miniseries starring Rolf Lassgård, the TV4 series with Krister Henriksson, the BBC series with Kenneth Branagh, and the Netflix reimagining Young Wallander. Covers each adaptation in watch order by season, with a novel chronological order showing Wallander's career from first case to final chapter.

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01NOVEL
1991Henning Mankell's 1991 debut Wallander novel, introducing Inspector Kurt Wallander of the Ystad police in southern Sweden. An elderly farm c…
288 pp
02NOVEL
1992Henning Mankell's 1992 second Wallander novel, in which two bodies are found in a life raft washed ashore on the Swedish coast, shot executi…
326 pp
03NOVEL
1993Henning Mankell's 1993 third Wallander novel, which opens with the apparent disappearance of a Swedish woman but expands into a plot reachin…
372 pp
04NOVEL
1994Henning Mankell's 1994 fourth Wallander novel, in which a depressed and burned-out Wallander returns to duty after a year's absence followin…
336 pp
05NOVEL
1995Henning Mankell's 1995 fifth Wallander novel, in which Wallander witnesses a teenage girl burn herself to death in a field before he investi…
420 pp
06NOVEL
1996Henning Mankell's 1996 sixth Wallander novel, beginning with the murder of four nuns in Algeria before pivoting to a series of violent killi…
428 pp
07NOVEL
1997Henning Mankell's 1997 seventh Wallander novel, in which three young people dressed in eighteenth-century costumes are found shot dead in a…
400 pp
08NOVEL
1998Henning Mankell's 1998 eighth Wallander novel, in which two teenage girls kill a taxi driver for no apparent reason, and a cash machine is f…
436 pp
09COLLECTION
1999Henning Mankell's 1999 short story collection gathering five Wallander stories originally published individually between 1990 and 1996. The…
376 pp
10NOVEL
2002Henning Mankell's 2002 novel introducing Linda Wallander, Kurt's daughter, who has just graduated from the police academy and is about to be…
388 pp
11NOVELLA
2004Henning Mankell's 2004 novella originally written as a gift for a Dutch publisher and first published in Dutch as Het Graf. Wallander discov…
176 pp
12NOVEL
2009Henning Mankell's 2009 final Wallander novel, in which Wallander investigates the disappearance of his daughter Linda's father-in-law, a ret…
500 pp