Anyone know if there are any more books left in the Henning Mankell Kurt Wallander series?

[TearsBeforeBedtime]

Looking on amazon, there don't seem to be any new Wallander hard backs in the pipeline?

According to \link{http://www.twbooks.co.uk/crimescene/hmankellintvbc.html\this}, the complete series is 9 books ... I think there have been 8 published over here, so there's one more left to come. Although they have been published out of sequence so it's anyone's guess really.

D'oh! Have just remembered that the Kurt Wallander series has finished anyway, and that he moved onto the Linda Wallender series. It's all a bit hard to get your head round though, as they translated the books out of sequence. will carry on googling till I find the solution.

thanks WWB!

let me know which ones you've read

I've read them all (I love his books!) - I read them first in the order they came out here and now recently, I went back and read the whole series in the order he intended!

Did you read the one where he sort of hands over to Linda? It was very good.

this is the site I used for reading order etc.

\link{http://www.inspector-wallander.org/\mankell}

Thanks very much for that link Foxinsocks.

Let me see - I've read:
Sidetracked
Faceless Killers
The White Lioness
The 5th Woman
The Man Who Smiled
Firewall
The Dogs of Riga
Before the Frost (Linda Wallander)
One Step behind

Soooo looks like apart from the short stories mentioned on your site (The Pyramid/The Grave) I've read all the Wallanders now!

yes looks like you've read them all! I also haven't read the short stories.

I noticed on the site it does say that he has planned 3 books in the Linda series so hopefully, there will be 2 more coming.

it's funny because I love these books - dh considers himself well read and I know loads of people who love reading yet you are the first person I've ever 'met' who reads these books

I think he is hugely underrated in this country

I read an interview (but now can't remember where!) where Ruth Rendell was saying how much she loves his books and has read them all

I am surprised that I am the first Wallander fan you have met Foxinsocks. Mind you I suppose the crime/thriller genre doesn't tend to be regarded all that seriously as "L"iterature, does it? Have you read other Scandinavian crime? I've read all the Karin Fossums, (I find them quite Ruth Rendellish), the Indriaarson (sp) ones, a few of the Sjowall/Wahloo ones, and the Devil's Star. Not got round to reading any Pernille Rygg. I started "Writing on the Wall" by Staaleson (Norwegian) and "Imago" by Eva-Marie Liffner, but never clicked with either of them so didn't finish them . I'm a bit of a Eurocrime anorak really - have read nearly all the Bitter Lemon Press ones too.

yes, what you say about the regard for crime writing is true I find. I saw a report in one of the papers that said crime writing has now overtaken all other forms of fiction as the most borrowed type of book from libraries (not sure if this was a national survey or just London wide). I've certainly been contributing to that!

Until I read Mankell, I was always very wary of translated fiction. I've always stuck to the British writers because of that but I was stuck for something to read last summer and our library had Sidetracked on its 'read for the holidays' shelf so I decided to try it. I got completely hooked, discovered the library had a whole set and practically spent most of my summer reading the lot.

I'll try some of the writers you suggest because I'm coming to the end of a book now. I've just taken out Maltese Falcon to reread because I haven't read that in years.

The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo is really very much like the Kurt Wallander books, so would probably be the best place for you to start. I find the quality of the Eurocrime translations very good in general- very modern and pacey. I like Dashiell Hammett too - last read the Maltese Falcon far too many years ago!