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Kurt Wallander Books In Order (Full List)
Kurt Wallander is a series of 10 books by Henning Mankell. The first book published in the series is Faceless Killers in 1991. Here is a complete list of Kurt Wallander books in order.
Last update: October 18, 2026
1. Faceless Killers (1991)
An elderly couple is murdered on a Skane farm, and the dying woman's last word sends Wallander toward a refugee camp.
- 📇 416 Pages
- 📝 104,000 - 124,800 Word Count
- ⏱️ 14 Hours Reading Time
2. The Dogs of Riga (1992)
Una fría mañana de febrero llega un bote salvavidas a la costa sueca arrastrado por la corriente, and dentro encuentran los cadáveres de dos hombres que, como confirma el inspector Wallander.
- 📇 336 Pages
- 📝 84,000 - 100,800 Word Count
- ⏱️ 11 Hours Reading Time
3. The White Lioness (1993)
Una tarde de primavera de 1992, la joven agente inmobiliaria Louise Akerblom es brutalmente asesinada en una solitaria y apartada granja de Escania, and un caso difícil para la polícia, pues.
- 📇 448 Pages
- 📝 112,000 - 134,400 Word Count
- ⏱️ 15 Hours Reading Time
4. The Man Who Smiled (1994)
La quatrième de couverture indique : "Le brouillard est épais en cette nuit automnale, and le vieil avocat Gustaf Torstensson est au volant.
- 📇 336 Pages
- 📝 84,000 - 100,800 Word Count
- ⏱️ 11 Hours Reading Time
5. Sidetracked (1995)
Sidetracked is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, the fifth in his Kurt Wallander series. Translated into English, it won the U.K. Crime Writers' Association annual Gold Dagger award for "best crime novel" in 2001.
- 📇 432 Pages
- 📝 108,000 - 129,600 Word Count
- ⏱️ 14 Hours Reading Time
6. The Fifth Woman (1996)
Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home.
- 📇 448 Pages
- 📝 112,000 - 134,400 Word Count
- ⏱️ 15 Hours Reading Time
7. One Step Behind (1997)
Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque.
- 📇 448 Pages
- 📝 112,000 - 134,400 Word Count
- ⏱️ 15 Hours Reading Time
8. Firewall (1998)
The search for answers leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead.
- 📇 416 Pages
- 📝 104,000 - 124,800 Word Count
- ⏱️ 14 Hours Reading Time
9. The Troubled Man (2011)
Con El hombre inquieto, Mankell retoma las andanzas del inspector Wallander, del que supimos por última vez en el volumen Antes de que hiele, y, según asegura el autor sueco.
- 📇 384 Pages
- 📝 96,000 - 115,200 Word Count
- ⏱️ 13 Hours Reading Time
10. An Event in Autumn (2014)
When Inspector Kurt Wallander learns a shallow grave in the garden of his new house, he checks the truth about the residence and its previous owner.
- 📇 169 Pages
- 📝 42,250 - 50,700 Word Count
- ⏱️ 6 Hours Reading Time