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Start with Faceless Killers and continue through all 11 books in the listed reading order.
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Book 1 by Henning Mankell
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Kurt Wallander reading order
Ends with An Event in Autumn
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Book 1:Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell
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Book 2:The Dogs of Riga
Henning Mankell • 1992
Two corpses wash ashore in a life raft on Swedens icy coast, executed and wearing expensive suits. The trail drags Wallander from Ystad to a nervous post Soviet Riga, where police, politicians, and gangsters blur tog...
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Book 3:The White Lioness
Henning Mankell • 1993
Investigating a missing real estate agent, Wallander stumbles on a murdered woman and a severed finger, clues that pull this small Swedish case into a plot reaching apartheid era South Africa. To stop an assassination...
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Book 4:The Man Who Smiled
Henning Mankell
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Book 5:Sidetracked
Henning Mankell
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Book 6:The Fifth Woman
Henning Mankell
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Book 7:One Step Behind
Henning Mankell
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Book 8:Firewall
Henning Mankell • 1998
A man collapses at a cash machine, two teenage girls butcher a taxi driver, and a massive power failure cripples Sweden. Wallanders cases fuse into a single investigation into hackers, financial systems, and a terrif...
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Book 9:The Pyramid
Henning Mankell
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Book 10:The Troubled Man
Henning Mankell • 2011
A retired submarine officer vanishes during his daily walk, and the case hits home because he is Linda Wallanders father in law. As Kurt digs into Cold War secrets and old spy scandals, he also confronts frightening...
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Book 11:An Event in Autumn
Henning Mankell • 2014
Thinking about buying a ramshackle farmhouse in the countryside, Wallander literally trips over a buried hand in the garden. The discovery of two long hidden bodies gives him one more autumn case to solve while he wei...
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Kurt Wallander FAQ
What is the best order to read the Kurt Wallander series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with Faceless Killers.
How many books are in the Kurt Wallander series?
There are 11 books currently listed in the Kurt Wallander series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Kurt Wallander series?
New readers should start with Faceless Killers, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Kurt Wallander series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 1992 to 2014.