In the sixth Kurt Wallander book to appear in English (One Step Behind, etc.), Mankell proves once again that spending time with a glum police inspector in chilly Sweden can be quite thrilling. In the ...

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Kurt Wallander is thrown into a world he does not master - the computing world. An empty taxi found, heavily bloodstained and battered. Two young girls are taken in for questioning and admits murder ...

Wallander: A "Masterpiece Mystery!" series. Starring Kenneth Branagh. "Sidetracked" 9 p.m. Sun.; "Firewall" 9 p.m. May 17 on KQED. There isn't anything horrifyingly wrong with "Wallander," the latest ...

Who knew Sweden was such a hotbed of murder, mayhem and sexual deviancy? (OK, maybe that last one, but that’s part of its tourism pitch.) Still, murder has seldom looked quite as breathtakingly ...

Much of that is due to Wallander himself. Author Henning Mankell created a detective so distinctive that across three very different adaptations (and with a fourth, Young Wallander, set to start on ...

The new episodes of the crime series, based on Henning Mankell's best-selling novels, also have sold to Australia and across Europe. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The series, which has aired ...

A new era is born.

When two dead bodies show up in the Swedish town of Ystad, the aging and disheartened police detective Kurt Wallander begins to investigate the murders as the press attacks his reputation. Mankell ...

Who knew Sweden was such a hotbed of murder, mayhem and sexual deviancy? (OK, maybe that last one, but that’s part of its tourism pitch.) Still, murder has seldom looked quite as breathtakingly ...