Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asesinos sin rostro | 1991 | Henning Mankell | N/A |
| 2 | Faceless Killers | 1991 | Henning Mankell | Buy |
| 3 | I cani di Riga | 1992 | Henning Mankell | N/A |
| 4 | The Dogs of Riga | 1992 | Henning Mankell | Buy |
| 5 | The White Lioness | 1993 | Henning Mankell | Buy |
| 6 | The Man Who Smiled | 1994 | Henning Mankell | Buy |
| 7 | Sidetracked | 1995 | Henning Mankell | Buy |
| 8 | Peta žena | 1996 | Henning Mankell | N/A |
| 9 | The Fifth Woman | 1996 | Henning Mankell | Buy |
| 10 | Mittsommermord | 1997 | Henning Mankell | N/A |
| 11 | One Step Behind | 1997 | Henning Mankell | Buy |
| 12 | Firewall | 1998 | Henning Mankell | Buy |
| 13 | Piramida | 1999 | Henning Mankell | N/A |
| 14 | Ręka | 2004 | Henning Mankell | N/A |
| 15 | The Troubled Man | 2011 | Henning Mankell | Buy |
| 16 | An Event in Autumn | 2014 | Henning Mankell | Buy |
Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series has sixteen entries published between 1991 and 2014. The list above includes both original-language editions and their English translations side by side, so some stories appear twice under different titles. For example, Asesinos sin rostro (1991) and Faceless Killers (1991) are the same novel, as are I cani di Riga (1992) and The Dogs of Riga (1992). English-language readers will want to look for the translated titles: Faceless Killers, The Dogs of Riga, The White Lioness, The Man Who Smiled, Sidetracked, The Fifth Woman, One Step Behind, and Firewall.
Reading in publication order is recommended because the detective’s personal life and professional relationships change from book to book. The series covers over two decades, and later entries like The Troubled Man (2011) and An Event in Autumn (2014) build on what came before. Readers starting fresh should begin with Faceless Killers and work forward through the list.