Kurt Wallander

Thank goodness. Someone’s put together a Kurt Wallander website in English detailing the publishing order of the Wallander series of novels by Henning Mankell.
Before I got to this site, I was totally confused by the publishing order, and frankly it’s not surprising. Later this month the latest English language Wallander novel is being published – The Return of the Dancing Master. Except, it’s not actually a Wallander novel. So why do we get it next. Firewall was published in the States last year, and has just come out there in paperback and is available via Amazon. Yet it’s UK publication isn’t until next April! Before the Frost is a year away, and The Man Who Smiled 18 months from now. Yet both of these latter two take place before The Fifth Woman in the chronology of Wallander, and also in the publishing timeline. I’m so confused.
Well I’ll have a look in the Crime Fiction shop tomorrow in Charing Cross Road to see if Firewall’s out there.


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