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.
Wallander in publication order
- 1
Faceless Killers (1991) - 2
The Dogs of Riga (1992) - 3
The White Lioness (1993) - 4
The Man Who Smiled (1994) - 5
Sidetracked (1995) - 6
The Fifth Woman (1996) - 7
One Step Behind (1997) - 8
Firewall (1998) - 9
The Pyramid (stories) (1999) - 10
The Troubled Man (2009)