Henning Mankell

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1990
  • Latest Book:
    February 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Joel Gustafson

1 - A Bridge to the Stars (1990)
2 - Shadows in the Twilight (1991)
3 - When the Snow Fell (1996)
4 - The Journey to the End of the World (1998)
5 - Shadow of the Leopard (Aug-2009)

A Kurt Wallander Mystery

1 - The Pyramid (1999)
2 - Faceless Killers (1991)
3 - The Dogs of Riga (1992)
4 - The White Lioness (1993)
5 - The Man Who Smiled (1994)
6 - Sidetracked (1995)
7 - The Fifth Woman (1996)
8 - One Step Behind (1997)
9 - Firewall (1998)
10 - The Troubled Man (Apr-2011)
11 - An Event in Autumn (Aug-2014)

A Linda Wallander Mystery

1 - Before the Frost (Feb-2005)

Stefan Lindman

1 - The Return of the Dancing Master (Feb-2004)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • A Bridge to the Stars

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy
    Joel Gustafson - 1

    One of the world's best-selling authors has written a moving story about a teenager's life in Northern Sweden. 12-year-old Joel lives with his father in the cold northern part of Sweden. At night he often sneaks out of the house to look for a lone...

  • Faceless Killers

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    A Kurt Wallander Mystery - 2

    IT WAS A SENSELESSLY VIOLENT CRIME On a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn't present enough problems for the Ystad police...

  • Shadows in the Twilight

    • / General Fiction
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    Joel Gustafson - 2

    JOEL WILL SOON be 12, and he thinks nothing is going on in the small community where he lives. But he's wrong. One day, an incident that could easily have been a catastrophe turns into a miracle. Now Joel believes he owes the world a good deed, to pr...

  • The Dogs of Riga

    • / Police Procedural
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    A Kurt Wallander Mystery - 3

    On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a c...

  • The White Lioness

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    A Kurt Wallander Mystery - 4

    When Inspector Kurt Wallander is called in to investigate the execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife, it initially seems like a routine case. He uncovers a suspicious stalker who may have committed the murder out of brutal passion. But when th...

  • The Man Who Smiled

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    A Kurt Wallander Mystery - 5

    After killing a man in the line of duty, Kurt Wallander resolves to quit the Ystad police. However, a bizarre case gets under his skin. A lawyer driving home at night stops to investigate an effigy in the middle of the highway. The lawyer is hit o...

  • Sidetracked

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    A Kurt Wallander Mystery - 6

    In the award-winning Sidetracked, Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is call...

  • The Fifth Woman

    • / Police Procedural
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    A Kurt Wallander Mystery - 7

    In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Erik...

  • When the Snow Fell

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy
    Joel Gustafson - 3

    Joel Gustafson's journey toward becoming a man continues. As it has in the past, the first snow of the year signifies to Joel Gustafson his very own New Year's Eve. So when the snow begins to fall on a cold November day, Joel gets busy making new ...



  • One Step Behind

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    A Kurt Wallander Mystery - 8

    On Midsummer's Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander's most trusted colleagues -- someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime -- also...

  • Firewall

    • / Police Procedural
    • Buy Buy
    A Kurt Wallander Mystery - 9

    A body is found at an ATM the apparent victim of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime showing no remorse whatsoever. Two open and shut cases. At first these two incide...

  • The Journey to the End of the World

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy
    Joel Gustafson - 4

    Continuing Mankell’s magical account of a boyhood spent in northern Sweden, Joel is fifteen and has left school, wanting to become a merchant sailor and travel far away from his home town in the north of Sweden. But first he must face up to the pas...

  • The Pyramid

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    A Kurt Wallander Mystery - 1

    The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Kurt Wallander's beginnings. Revealing a side of Wallander that we have never seen, the long stories collected in The Pyramid are vintage Mankell. Her...

  • Secrets in the Fire

    The powerful story of one girl's indomitable spirit after surviving a land mine in war-ravaged southern Africa. It is the wise old woman of the village who teaches young Sofia about the secrets in the fire. Within the flames hide all things past a...

  • The Return of the Dancing Master

    Stefan Lindman - 1

    When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snow...as if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young police officer rece...

  • Before the Frost

    A Linda Wallander Mystery - 1

    In this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter Linda join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree. Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skane to join the police force, and she alr...

  • Chronicler of the Winds

    From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander Mysteries: An “uplifting . . . grittily realistic” fable about war-torn Africa and a mystical orphan boy (The New York Times).   A single gunshot cracks the silence of a h...

  • Depths

    A gripping, masterful novel from the world-famous Henning Mankell, set off the coast of Sweden during World War I. The skerry was resting in the sea. It was like being in a cradle, or on a deathbed, he thought. All the voices hidden in the cliff w...

  • Kennedy's Brain

    From internationally bestselling author Henning Mankell comes a gripping mystery and a depiction of every parent's worst nightmare. When Louise Cantor finds her twenty-eight-year-old son dead in his apartment, everything indicates it was a suicide. ...



  • The Eye of the Leopard

    From the creator of the acclaimed Kurt Wallander series: A thrilling story set in Sweden and Zambia told with “heart-stopping tension” (Entertainment Weekly).   Interweaving past and present, The Eye of the Leopard draws on bestselling autho...

  • The Cat Who Liked Rain

    Mankell’s only book for younger readers tells the story of 7-year old Lucas who is given a beautiful black cat for his birthday. He becomes very fond of it and is devastated when it disappears one rainy night....

  • Italian Shoes

    The bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander series delivers a “short, beautiful, and ultimately life-affirming novel” about the path to self-acceptance (Booklist).   From the prize-winning “master of atmosphere” comes the surprising and...

  • Shadow of the Leopard

    Joel Gustafson - 5

    Readers met Sofia previously in Secrets in the Fire, when, at the age of 9, she lost her legs in a land mine explosion.Now Sofia is almost 20 and pregnant with her third child. Armando, the father of her children, travels to the city to work, coming ...

  • The Man from Beijing

    The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller. January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only ...

  • Daniel

    In 1878, aspiring entomologist Hans Bengler travels to the Kalahari Desert in hopes of making a name for himself by discovering a previously unknown insect or two. There he encounters a boy named Molo, an orphan whose family has been killed by Europe...

  • The Troubled Man

    A Kurt Wallander Mystery - 10

    On a winter day in 2008, Hakan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation into his disappearance falls under the jurisdiction of the Stockholm police. It has nothing to...

  • The Shadow Girls

    Jesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin’s investments, and his editor, who...

  • A Treacherous Paradise

    From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander crime novels, a powerful stand-alone novel set in early-twentieth-century Sweden and Mozambique, whose vividly drawn female protagonist is awoken from her naïveté by her exposure to ra...

  • An Event in Autumn

    A Kurt Wallander Mystery - 11

    After nearly thirty years in the same job, Inspector Kurt Wallander is tired, restless, and itching to make a change. He is taken with a certain old farmhouse, perfectly situated in a quiet countryside with a charming, overgrown garden. There he find...



  • After the Fire

    Henning Mankell's last novel about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire. Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier ...

  • The Rock Blaster

    Henning Mankell's first novel, never before released in English, explores the reflections of a working class man who has struggled against the constraints of his station for his entire life. The year is 1911. The young rock blaster Oskar Joha...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Henning Mankell has published 31 books.

Henning Mankell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Rock Blaster, was published in February 2020.

The first book by Henning Mankell, A Bridge to the Stars, was published in January 1990.

Yes. Henning Mankell has 4 series.
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