All the novels about Wallander take place in Ystad. Click here to read more about the Wallander book series. Or here to glance at the BBC Wallander movies. Are you interested in visiting Ystad or finding out more go to Ystads kommuns hemsida.

In Kennedy's Brain, the archeolog Louise Cantor is working in Athens when she founds out that her son has been found dead in anapartment in Stockholm. She suspects he has been murdered.

Traces after the dead son Henrik in Kennedy's Brain leads to a secret apartment in Barcelona...

On the coast of the Italian island Lampedusa, refugees are found dead every day, people who have died trying to make their way to Europe. Click here to read about Henning Mankells play Lampedusa.

The Shoemaker that appears in Italian Shoes worked for the legendary shoemaker Gatto in Rome.

The Man from Beijing that partly takes place in London's Soho and Chinatown, begins with a brutal massmurder in a small village in Hälsningland, Sweden.

In The Dogs in Riga, two dead men in a rescue raft floats a shore on the coast of Skåne. Kurt Wallander leaves Ystad for Riga to solve the case.

In Copenhagen Henning Mankell's latest novel The Man from Beijing and the Wallander novel One Step Behind take place.

Sveg is the place where Henning Mankell was raised. Two years ago a culture centre in his name was opened there. It holds a permanent exhibition about Mankell and his work.To find out go to Kulturcentrum Mankell. Henning Mankells books about the boy Joel takes place in Sveg, as well as the novel Italian Shoes.

Henning Mankell was born in Stockholm on February 3rd 1948. In the new novel about Kurt Wallander, Wallander spends time in Stockholm to try to find out what has happened.

In the upcoming Wallander novel, Kurt Wallander is forced to travel to Berlin to meet with a former CIA agent.