When a woman is found murdered in the middle of Øresund Bridge on the border between Sweden and Denmark, Saga Norén from Malmö CID and Martin Rohde from the Copenhagen police department are called to the scene.

Why had a region best known for Volvos, Abba and Ikea begun producing dark and violent thrillers filled with brooding detectives and avenging cyberpunks?

29 oktober är det urpremiär för Henning Mankells pjäs Darwins kapten på Dramatens scen Lejonkulan.

The new series of Swedish Wallander films starring Krister Henriksson has been awarded The International TV Dagger.

The bleak Scandinavian landscapes have inspired a series of hit books about dour detectives, and more writers are now lining up to claim the Nordic crime crown

Ålder kan vara ett känsligt ämne. Och att spela en klassisk karaktär som 60-plussaren Willy Loman i ”En handelsresandes död” är inget för valpar. I höst tar Krister Henriksson steget in i ett nytt register.

Ystad. Kurt Wallander lever vidare trots att Henning Mankell skrivit sin sista bok om Ystads numera världsberömde kommissarie. Nu kommer en reportagebok som tar avstamp i Wallanderland.

TV review: Wallander (BBC4) has been up there with Mad Men when it comes to capturing the vague feeling of yearning for something else that haunts the frantic ambition of modern life.

Kurt Wallander är Ystads största attraktion. Henning Mankells romanfigur lockar årligen tusentals turister till Sveriges sydligaste stad. Och de flesta av kommunens drygt 27 000 invånare är inte så lite stolta över den melankoliske kriminalkommissarien som löser mordfall på löpande band i den lilla kullerstensstaden.

"By the time he reached Blekegatan he was out of breath. From Mariagatan he had jogged along Oskarsgatan, although it wasn't far and he had not run particularly fast, the chill, damp autumn air bit into his lungs and his heart pounded."

The actress kick boxed, pierced and tattooed her way through as Salander, the goth supersleuth in Stieg Larsson’s trilogy.

Henning Mankell's detective is a dark, humourless misanthrope. Yet he has become Sweden's most famous export since Abba

Replete with blameless blue skies and billowing yellow fields, Wallander, the three-part adaptation of Henning Mankell's detective novels, almost literally waved the flag for Sweden.

How did the nation's critics see Kenneth Branagh's debut as pizza-loving opera-buff detective Wallander?

New policewoman Linda Wallander is waiting for her first big case at Ystad police station and her father, Inspector Kurt Wallander, is getting on her nerves. When her childhood friend Anna mysteriously disappears she is thrown in at the deep end and soon needs her father's help on a fascinating and very dangerous investigation.

John Harvey presents a documentary about writer Henning Mankell, Sweden's most popular author internationally and the creator of the Kurt Wallander detective series.