Author: Henning Mankell

Midsummer, and a serial killer is on the loose in Ystad… and Wallander is getting to grips with his not overly surprising diabetes diagnosis.

Publisher’s webpage: One Step Behind – Henning Mankell

Wallander’s daughter, Linda, has graduated from the police academy and is waiting, impatiently, to start her career as a policewoman in her home town, and father’s patch, Ystad.

In parallel with parent-child relationships, Before the Frost explores the origins and operations of religious cults – starting with Jim Jones and the Jonestown mass suicide.

Amazon.co.uk webpage: Before The Frost – Henning Mankell

A final instalment for Kurt Wallander, as his daughter gives birth to his first grandchild, and finds some degree of happiness with financier Hans von Enke. But all is not it seems in The Troubled Man, when Hans’ father, Håkan, a retired submarine captain and bigwig in the Swedish Navy and then his wife, Louise, disappear. The Cold War resurfaces. Something is rotten in the seas between the states of Denmark and Sweden.

Publisher page: The Troubled Man – Henning Mankell

A set of short(ish) stories covering key stages in the career of Kurt Wallander, which inevitably reveal more about his (difficult) relationships with his father, wife and daughter. If you like Wallander, you should read this collection; if you’ve not yet met Wallander, start (or end) here.

Amazon.co.uk link: The Pyramid – Henning Mankell