Editing Henning Mankell (section)

=== Wallander series ===
[[File:Bookbits - 2010-04-22 Henning Mankell-The Man from Beijing.vorb.oga|thumb|Henning Mankell talks about ''The Man from Beijing'' on Bookbits radio.]]
[[Kurt Wallander]] is a fictional police [[detective|inspector]] living and working in [[Ystad]],<ref>pronounced Ue-stad ("ue" as in "muesli" and "a" as in "father" – not pronounced as in the recent 2008 UK television adaptation)</ref> Sweden. In the novels, he solves shocking murders with his colleagues. The novels have an underlying question: "What went wrong with Swedish society?"<ref>{{cite web|last1=Van der Paal|first1=Jill|title=Mördarna i Henning Mankells Kurt Wallanderserie|url=http://lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/001/414/772/RUG01-001414772_2010_0001_AC.pdf|website=www.lib.urgent.be|publisher=Universiteit Gent|access-date=2016-02-16}}</ref>

The series has won many awards, including the German Crime Prize and the British 2001 [[Crime Writers' Association|CWA]] [[Gold Dagger]] for [[Sidetracked (novel)|''Sidetracked'']] ([[1995 in literature|1995]]).<ref name="wroe" />

The ninth book, [[The Pyramid (short stories)|''The Pyramid'']] ([[1999 in literature|1999]]), is a prequel about Wallander's past, covering the time until just before the start of ''[[Faceless Killers]]'' ([[1991 in literature|1991]]). It includes a collection of five novellas:<ref name="wroe" />
*''Wallander's First Case''
*''The Man with the Mask''
*''The Man on the Beach''
*''The Death of the Photographer''
*''The Pyramid''

Ten years after ''The Pyramid'', Mankell published another Wallander novel, ''[[The Troubled Man]]'' ([[2009 in literature|2009]]), which he said would definitely be the last in the series.<ref name="wroe">Wroe, Nicholas (20 February 2010), [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/20/henning-mankell-interview "A Life in writing: Henning Mankell"], ''The Guardian''.</ref>

Linda is the daughter of Kurt Wallander, who follows in his footsteps as a police officer. Mankell began an intended trilogy of novels with her as the protagonist. However, following the suicide of [[Johanna Sällström]], the actress playing the character at the time in the Swedish TV series, Mankell was so distraught that he decided to abandon the series after only the first novel.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/27/wallandar-hemming-mankell-tv-books-detective|title=Henning Mankell creates a 'female Wallander' following star's suicide|author=Paul Gallagher|work=The Guardian|date=26 December 2009|access-date=2015-10-05}}</ref>