An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Afterword

This story was written many years ago. It had been decided in Holland that everybody who bought a crime novel in a certain month would receive a free book. I was asked if I would write a story. It was a good idea — making people more interested in reading.

The book was duly published. Many years later the BBC discovered the story and made it the basis of a manuscript for a television film in which Kenneth Branagh would play the part of Wallander. I saw the film, and realized that the story still felt alive and relevant.

Later, when it became necessary to make a list of all my Wallander stories, I saw an opportunity to publish this “Dutch” story once again.

Chronologically, it dates to the period just before The Troubled Man, which completed the Wallander series.

There are no more stories about Kurt Wallander.

Henning Mankell

Gothenburg, October 2012