Wallander audiobooks in order
The Swedish detective series that largely invented the Nordic noir boom, read by Sean Barrett — a fixture of British audio and one of the reasons these translate so well.
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Which order should you listen in?
Publication order. Wallander ages in real time across the sequence and the last book depends heavily on the earlier ones, so this is not a series to dip into at the end. The Pyramid is a collection of earlier cases published late, and is best read after the novels despite being chronologically first.
On screen: Swedish and BBC TV, From 1994. Every series here that has been adapted for the screen →
Wallander in publication order
- 1
Faceless Killers (1991)Read by Sean Barrett · 7h 57m unabridged - 2
The Dogs of Riga (1992)Read by Sean Barrett · 10h 4m unabridged - 3
The White Lioness (1993)Read by Sean Barrett · 15h 34m unabridged - 4
The Man Who Smiled (1994)Read by Sean Barrett · 11h 9m unabridged - 5
Sidetracked (1995)Read by Sean Barrett · 13h 21m unabridged - 6
The Fifth Woman (1996)Read by Sean Barrett · 14h 48m unabridged - 7
One Step Behind (1997)Read by Sean Barrett · 14h 31m unabridged - 8
Firewall (1998)Read by Sean Barrett · 13h 40m unabridged - 9
The Pyramid (stories) (1999)Read by Sean Barrett · 12h 44m unabridged - 10
The Troubled Man (2009)Read by Sean Barrett · 15h 6m unabridged