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Kurt Wallander Books in Order

Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell contains 11 books, published between 1991 and 2014. The first book is Faceless Killers (1991) and the newest is An Event in Autumn (2014). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
1991–2014
Confirmed
11 of 11 titles
Pages on record
3,235 in 8 of 11 books
Reading time
54–81 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,235 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

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Kurt Wallander is a police detective in Sweden, and Henning Mankell wrote 11 books around him. Faceless Killers (1991) opens the series, followed by The Dogs of Riga (1992), The White Lioness (1993), The Man Who Smiled (1994), Sidetracked (1995), The Fifth Woman (1996) and One Step Behind (1997). Murder investigations carry the run, and An Event in Autumn (2014) is the last catalogued entry.

How many Kurt Wallander books are there?

Kurt Wallander has 11 books, released between 1991 and 2014.

Kurt Wallander Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Kurt Wallander books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell, book 1 of the Kurt Wallander series (1991)
  2. Cover of The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases by Henning Mankell, book 1 of the Kurt Wallander series (1999)
  3. Cover of The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell, book 2 of the Kurt Wallander series (1992)
  4. Cover of The White Lioness by Henning Mankell, book 3 of the Kurt Wallander series (1993)
  5. Cover of The Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell, book 4 of the Kurt Wallander series (1994)
  6. Cover of Sidetracked by Henning Mankell, book 5 of the Kurt Wallander series (1995)
  7. Cover of The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell, book 6 of the Kurt Wallander series (1996)
  8. Cover of One Step Behind by Henning Mankell, book 7 of the Kurt Wallander series (1997)
  9. Cover of Firewall by Henning Mankell, book 8 of the Kurt Wallander series (1998)
  10. Cover of The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell, book 9 of the Kurt Wallander series (2011)
  11. Cover of An Event in Autumn by Henning Mankell, book 10 of the Kurt Wallander series (2014)
  1. 1
    Faceless Killers1991 · confirmed 3/4
    1991–
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  2. 1
    The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases1999 · 392 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1999392
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  3. 2
    The Dogs of Riga1992 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1992336
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  4. 3
    The White Lioness1993 · 448 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1993448
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  5. 4
    The Man Who Smiled1994 · 325 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1994325
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  6. 5
    Sidetracked1995 · 432 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1995432
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  7. 6
    The Fifth Woman1996 · 438 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996438
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  8. 7
    One Step Behind1997 · 448 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997448
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  9. 8
    Firewall1998 · 416 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1998416
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  10. 9
    The Troubled Man2011 · confirmed 3/4
    2011–
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  11. 10
    An Event in Autumn2014 · confirmed 3/4
    2014–
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Kurt Wallander Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Kurt Wallander books run from Faceless Killers (1991) to An Event in Autumn (2014), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Kurt Wallander in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Kurt Wallander books in order?

You should read the Kurt Wallander books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Kurt Wallander book also stands alone.

Where to start with Kurt Wallander

Start with Faceless Killers (1991), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Kurt Wallander book?

An Event in Autumn (2014) is the newest Kurt Wallander book released so far.

Is there a new Kurt Wallander book coming?

No next Kurt Wallander book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Kurt Wallander has won

Wikidata records 3 awards for Kurt Wallander. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Kurt Wallander at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Kurt Wallander title on record dates from 2014, 12 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Kurt Wallander books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,235 pages across the 8 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 424 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Kurt Wallander books, 9 of 11, were published in the 1990s.

What the Kurt Wallander books are about

All 11 Kurt Wallander books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: police is tagged on 10 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Henning Mankell

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.