New jackets for Wallander

White snow, different shades of grey and dramatic skies – here are the new covers for The White Lioness, The Dogs of Riga and Faceless Killers.

“Every time Wallander stepped into someone’s home, he felt as though he were looking at the front cover of a book that he had just bought” – Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers

Swedish Wallander s2 on DVD in the US in May

The second series of the Swedish Wallander with Krister Henriksson will be released on video-on-demand and DVD in the US in the end of May.

Watch Wallander in 13 recently recorded episodes in the pittoresque town of Ystad, Sweden. The episodes are 90 minutes each and will be in Swedish with English subtitles.

Read more about the new Wallander episodes here.

The Troubled Man nominated for Best Novel

The very last novel in the Wallander series, The Troubled Man, has been nominated for Best Novel in the 2012 Barry Awards. In 2009 another Swedish writer, Stieg Larsson, won the award for his novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Earlier winners of the Barry Award have been George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane and Denise Mina.

The Barry Award is a crime literary prize awarded annually by the editors of Deadly Pleasures, an american publication for crime fiction readers. … Read more

The Troubled Man favourite crime book of the year

The Sunday Book Review in the New York Times has chosen The Troubled Man as one of the favourite books in the list of Notable Crime Books of 2011.

”The final exit of a beloved sleuth is the focal point of my choice: THE TROUBLED MAN. Henning Mankell makes it clear that his brilliant if chronically depressed Swedish detective, Kurt Wallander, has solved his last case. In the course of investigating a political conspiracy that dates back to the cold … Read more

Kenneth Branagh: “Wallander thinks he is a cheerful person”

In an interview with The Telegraph, British actor Kenneth Branagh talks about Wallander and his moody ways, and how the Swedish nature gives a Bergmanesque touch to the Wallander filmings.

Kenneth Branagh recently spoke to The Telegraph about the different roles in his career. Naturally, Wallander and Sweden came up. When asked if he finds more interesting facets of Wallander as time goes by, Branagh answers: 

– He doesn’t have a series of things that … Read more

The British Wallander is back in Ystad

Last week Kenneth Branagh and the BBC filmteam visited the south of Sweden to record the screen version of Before the Frost.
BBC is currently shooting episod 7-9 in the Wallander series. The seventh episode, The Dogs of Riga, was shot in August. The ninth one is a completely new story.
– Kenneth Branagh possess something I think all big actors have – credibility and a firm desire to go one’s own way. In the same way that Rolf (Lassgård) and Krister (Henriksson) … Read more

Wallander app makes you discover Ystad

Planning a trip to Sweden? Henning Mankell, in collaboration with Ystad Tourism, has released a free app to enable fans to follow in the footsteps of Mankell’s famous detective Kurt Wallander and learn more about the location of this internationally bestselling crime series.

In the footsteps of Wallander is available to download in English, Swedish and German through an iPhone or Android phone. It is designed for use when you are in Ystad, Sweden – where the fictional … Read more

The Troubled Man a bestseller in the UK

The last novel about inspector Kurt Wallander, The Troubled Man, hit #2 of The Sunday Times Hardback Fiction Bestseller list the 3rd April. The Troubled Man was released in the UK in the end of march and has recieved a great reception from the critics as well as the English-speaking public.