In the footsteps of Wallander

Ystad tourist office

In the book The White Lioness, conspirator Rykoff receives help from the staff of the tourist office in hiding murderer Victor Mabasha’s successors. The tourist office can help with even more detailed information about Wallander. They also sell postcards and souvenirs.

Ystad art museum

The hospital scene where the character Erika Carlman is cared for after her suicide attempt in the film Sidetracked was filmed in the museum’s auditorium.

Hotell Continental

Sweden’s oldest hotel, opened in 1829. Wallander often eats in the hotel restaurant. Sometimes he invites his daughter Linda to dinner. The restaurant at the hotel is frequently used by the Ystad police for Christmas tables and other events in the books. Kurt’s regular table can still be found in the restaurant.

There is a murder investigation at the hotel in the book One Step Behind. Wallander plans to arrest serial murderer Åke Larstam during a masquerade ball at the hotel. The building is surrounded by police and Wallander’s colleagues Ann-Britt Höglund and Martinsson dress as waiters. But the murderer never shows up and Wallander feels a mixture of relief and disappointment.

S:ta Maria church

Mona and Kurt Wallander are married here in 1970 by the priest who confirmed Mona. In the book One Step Behind, the funeral of the murdered policeman Svedberg is held here. Kurt is one of those carrying the coffin and Ann-Britt Höglund gives a speech.

Stickgatan

Wallander parks his car here. In the books it is a blue Peugeot.

Pilgränd

In the film The Revenge, the controversial politician Wester is shot and killed in his home in Pilgränd, even though the police are watching the house.

Stora Östergatan

In the book The Fifth Woman, Wallander comes here to buy an opera CD. Wallander visits an optician near Pilgränd and also hires a film from a video shop there. In the film The Sad Bird, a confused Kurt drives his car here, even though it is a pedestrian street. He panics when he realises that the illness is taking more of a hold.

The old churchyard

When Kurt is diagnosed with diabetes, he visits the churchyard to come to terms with the news in the book One Step Behind.

Österportskolan, Österport square

In the film The Brothers, the hunt for the villain comes to a brutal end when he throws himself in front of an armoured car during a military display. In the film The Overdose/The Darkness it is found that all the victims have a connection with Österport school. Both school pupils and police like to buy hot sausages or hamburgers at Österport grill. In restaurant Helsa På, Pontus eats lunch with his father and son in the film The Sniper.

Ystad Abbey

In the film The Cellist, the Abbey - now a museum – is transformed into a Russian orthodox church. In nearby Klostergatan lives Tynnes Falk, who is an IT specialist in the book Firewall. He is found dead in front of the ATM in Stortorget. His body disappears without trace from the hospital. The body, minus hands and feet, is later found on the beach in Svarte.

The Hospital

Kurt is treated here for diabetes and stress symptoms. Later also for the onset of Alzheimers. Midwife Ylva Brink, Svedberg’s cousin, works at the hospital and is a key witness in the book The Fifth Woman. In the film The Overdose/The Darkness, a number of girls are exploited by several men. One of the girls, Tove, is cared for here after a murder attempt. In a dramatic scene she is abducted and taken up to the hospital roof to be silenced for ever.

Wallander’s father is admitted here after being found confused in a field. Klara, Hans and Linda’s daughter and Kurt’s first grandchild, is born here on 30 August 2007.

Hotel Anno 1793, Sekelgården

Bo Runfelt, a witness in The Fifth Woman and foreign office woman Birgitta Törn in the book The Dogs of Riga stay here. So do police officers Ludwigsson and Hamrén when they are in Ystad to assist the local police in the book Sidetracked. In the brewery next door, Pontus tells Isabell that he has a son in the film The Sniper. The hotel’s Wallander Suite can be hired to conclude a day in Wallander’s footsteps.

Harmonigatan

Ironically enough, Henning Mankell uses a sweet little house in the street with the gentle name of Harmonigatan as the address of a murderer in the book One Step Behind.

Sjömansgatan

A yellow plastered building in this street houses lawyers Sten & Gustaf Torstensson’s offices in the book The Man Who Smiled. Sten Torstensson is murdered here with three shots. At the time of the murder, Wallander is considering leaving the police force. But he decides to continue, since he knew Sten and wishes to work on the investigation. The lawyer helped him when he divorced Mona.

Möllers Bageri

Regementsgatan 15

I filmen Försvunnen tickar minuterna och Kurt blir besatt av att finna åttaåriga Ella som är försvunnen. En av de huvudmisstänkta har sitt bageri här. I en annan scen i samma film gör Jannika Hammar inbrott i bageriet.

Hejdegatan

Linda Wallander moves to a terraced house here after the break-up with police colleague Stefan Lindman. In the film The Secret, the past catches up with Stefan. One evening he comes here with a gunshot wound to seek solace. He carries a dark secret about his past.

Ystad Theatre

In the film The Cellist, the Ystad police are drawn into a ruthless war with the Russian mafia. After a concert in this beautiful building dating from 1894, the Russian cellist Irina is the victim of a horrible bombing attack in the car park outside the theatre.

Bea and Kurt come here on a date in the film The Arsonist. Unfortunately the police are waiting outside when Kurt leaves the concert and he has to get on with the job and leave Bea on her own. In the book The Troubled Man, Wallander is at Ystad Theatre to see what he considers to be a boring play by a modern American dramatist.

Södra Dragongatan 22

Exterior and interior of restaurant Skogshyddan in the British film A lesson in Love.

Hamngatan

The present restaurant Bröderna M is one of Wallander’s favourite spots. He goes there to share his thoughts with the restaurant’s owner Istvan. In Firewall, two young girls order a taxi from the pizzeria for a journey that ends in murder. Johannes Lövgren makes a large withdrawal from the bank in the book Faceless Killers.

Stora Västergatan

An eight year old girl called Ella lives here in the film Missing. Kurt comes to the apartment several times to question the mother about Ella’s disappearance.

Stortorget square

Among the many places in the square is a bookshop that Wallander often frequents. Here too is the restaurant Upp eller Ner where Wallander invites his colleague Nyberg in One Step Behind – without having money on him, so Nyberg ends up paying. The exterior of the old town hall is a bank in the film The Village Idiot. The film’s hostage drama is resolved in the square when a man made up as an Indian blows himself up. There is another hostage drama in the film The Revenge when a man with a bomb chains himself to the defence minister, who is giving a speech in the square.

The politician Wester has an office in the old town hall in the same film and the police arrest demonstrators outside. The main character of the film The Betrayal, Erik Wredin, has his office here. Herlitz’s mother lives in an apartment in a corner house here in the film The Loss. In the book One Step Behind, Linda asks her friend Zebran to buy food from the chinese restaurant on the corner. She has her foot stuck in a fox trap.

Norreportskolan

Gosselmansgatan 2

In the film A Lesson in Love, Kurt comes to the school to question some pupils after a girl called Hanna has disappeared without trace. Many pupils in the school had the chance to act as extras beside Sir Kenneth Branagh.

Tvättorget, Café Bäckahästen

After an unsuccessful first meeting with a woman called Ella at the Soft Social Club in Stora Östergatan, Wallander finally meets her again at Café Bäckahästen in the film Firewall. Wallander is in love but Ella has other ideas. She uses Wallander to find out secret police information.

New Town Hall

A married couple is murdered in what seems like torture during a large military exercise in Österport square in Ystad in the film The Village Idiot. Another man is found similarly murdered a few days later. One of the last scenes in the film The Brothers was shot in front of the new town hall.

Fritidsbaren

An attractive cafe by the sea. Wallander and Anja come here for coffee and cake during their brief affair in The Tricksters/The Weak Point.

Ystads Saltsjöbad

The trail leads to the hotel in The Photographer. Part of the hotel and Kåseberga Café and Bistro were used to create the luxury residence in the film The Castle Ruins. Clever film editing turned the hotel’s spa, Kåseberga Café & Bistro and a residential area of Ystad into the exclusive residence Soldala, which has a central role in the film The Castle Ruins.

New water towers, Dag Hammarsköljds väg

In the film The Revenge, Ystad experiences what is thought to be a terrorist attack and the army is called in. While gazing over the area, Wallander finds the first clues towards the solution. The scene at the new water tower features a tense meeting between Wallander and Lindström.

Blankas gata

In the northwestern residential area of Ystad is this house where Martinsson arrests Peter Adler in the film The Ghost/The Phantom.

The recycling center, Hedeskoga

Blåsborgsvägen 161

The grisly crime at the heart of the film The Witness occurs at the recycling centre in Hedeskoga. A little girl who is hiding on the rubbish tip must be silenced at all costs after witnessing a brutal murder

Linda's house, Vädergränd

In the 27th Kurt Wallander film, when it is time to reintroduce the character Linda, the picturesque house in Vädergränd is chosen to be her home. She lives here with husband Hans and daughter Klara in the third series.

Vitlöksgatan

Is used as a residential street in Stockholm. This is where the Engelbrecht family lives in the film The Troubled Man.

Soldalen nursery school, Krogdammsvägen

This is where granddaughter Klara Wallander goes to nursery school and also where Bea works, whom Kurt comes to know during the last series of films.

Ystad District Court

Bollhusgatan 16

Kurt is back at the police station after suspension. He is directly involved in the case of the eight year old Ella who has disappeared in the film Missing. In this film, Ystad district court is used as Trelleborg police station.

Sandskogen

Forshagastigen 1

The home of Bea, whom Kurt becomes increasingly involved with in the third series of films. Bea is a teacher at Klara’s nursery school and is introduced for the first time in the film The Troubled Man.

Västra Vallgatan 3N

The home of Olle Tjäder, who is a drug addict and one of the main suspects in the film The Sad Bird.

Stortorget 15, Le Cardinal

Well-known innkeeper Paolo Salino is brutally kidnapped. This is his restaurant in the film The Sad Bird. The same restaurant is Joije’s cafe in the film Missing. During a late evening walk in the film The Arsonist, he ends up in the middle of a book circle organised by Bea at the restaurant. But he must break off abruptly when he receives a call and is ordered to the police station. In the film Before the Frost, Kurt and Linda talk about the downside to police work. The conversation ends in a sensitive scene on the street outside the restaurant that has become one of the key scenes in the film.

Pier at the Marina

Segelgatan

It is almost Christmas and Kurt is affected by his failing memory. He sees that it will soon be necessary to tell his colleagues and the rest of the world that he is ill. When he feels unwell he walks on the quayside and talks to his dead father Povel in the film The Sad Bird.

Södra Dragongatan

One of the buildings towards the end of the street is used as the American embassy in the film The Troubled Man.

Ystad Marina

In the film The Forger/The Joker, a woman is put to death before her daughter’s eyes in front of her restaurant, Chez Moi, in reality Marinans Restaurang. In the film Firewall the restaurant has changed its name to Vyström’s bar. The hacker Modin, who has been engaged to help the Ystad police, comes here for Wallander during dinner with a woman. Jens Riis and his daughter hide here form the Russian mafia in the film The Cellist.

The films ends violently on the boat Moskus, which is moored in the marina. Martinsson and Wallander chase kidnappers with a rescue boat in The Ghost/ The Phantom.

Ystads Sandskog

Gustaf Wetterstedt, former justice minister, has a house in Sandskogen and is murdered on one of his evening walks along the beach in the book Sidetracked. The murderer has scalped his victim. In the film Sidetracked, Stefan Fredman lives in Lövsångarestigen, while the same character in the book Villospår lives in Malmö. After Wallander is diagnosed with diabetes, he can be seen at least four times a week exercising along the narrow, twisting paths in the woods.

Sandskogen is one of Skåne’s holiday home areas, with both simple summerhouses and costly villas. In the book The Dogs of Riga, Wallander leads the hunt for a suspected rapist who has taken shelter in an abandoned house here. Sandskogen is often mentioned in the Wallander stories and is frequently used in film productions. This is partly because it is close to Ystad Studios, but also because it gives a great variety of locations. In the film Missing, the eight year old Ella is seen cycling along the exercise path. The police later find her mother Helene dead in the same spot.

Sandskogen sports ground

Saltsjöbadsvägen 17

In the film The Thief, a number of burglaries occur in Ystad and some neighbours decide to take matters into their own hands. The sports ground plays a key role in the film, and the film’s conclusion occurs here.

Teppgränd

This is the location of the women’s refuge that takes in women who have fled from terrible conditions at home, in the film The Loss.

Industrigatan

Kurt comes here in the book The Dogs of Riga to meet the person with a tip-off about two dead men in a life raft. The garage where Kurt bought his car, a Peugeot 306, is also here.

Bornholmsgatan 8

In the film The Loss, an excavation uncovers the remains of a prostitute from Moldavia and Kurt is brought into the case. The path leads to a Russian people trafficker who calls himself a fashion photographer. To find the answers, Kurt must go to Moldavia. This area in Ystad harbour was used as a red light district, ferry terminal and airport in Moldavia.

Missunnavägen

In the book Firewall, the IT specialist Tynnes Falk is found dead beside an ATM outside a grocery store.

Södra Dragongatan 15

This was used as the location of a social services office in the film The Loss. The drug addict Olle Tjäder is found dead in this street in the film The Sad Bird.

Militärvägen 2, Previa

The interior was used as the location where Kurt goes to see his neurologist.

Körlings väg

Victor Nilsson lives here in the film Missing. He is one of the suspects in the disappearance of the eight year old girl Ella.

Kronoholmsvägen

Kurt’s colleague and mentor Rydberg is buried here.

Kriminalvården, Norra Zinkgatan 6

The arsonist who has served his sentence is released in the film The Arsonist.

Norra promenaden

Parents and friends search the park and play areas here for eight year old Ella in the film Missing.

Fridhemsgatan 45C

The corrupt policeman Leif Thorson lives in one of the apartments in The film The Sad Bird. The police find him dead here.

Stockholm police station, Koppargatan

Stockholm police station is here in the film The Troubled Man.

Lavendelvägen

Policewoman Jenny Blom’s house in the film The Sad Bird. No one knows she has the restaurant owner Paolo Salinos locked up in her cellar.

Herrestadsgatan

This is where the Russian fashion photographer Tigran has his studio for glamour models in the film The Loss.

Target range, Sandskogen

The policewoman Jenny threatens her former colleague Leif Thorson with a pistol in the film The Sad Bird. She wants to avenge an old injustice and see justice done once and for all.

Klostergatan

In the book Firewall, the IT specialist Tynnes Falk lives on the fictitious Apelbergsatan. The apartment in the BBC film Firewall is shot on Klostergatan.

Pressbyrån, Österleden

Here Kurt meets the former arsonist Tommy Ek late one evening while Kurt is walking his dog Jussi in the film The Arsonist.

Bornholmsgatan 1A

In the British film The Troubled Man, premises here are used as corridors and interview rooms in Ystad police station.

Bussmevägen, Nybrostrand

Kurt becomes deeply emotionally attached to young Amanda who comes into the police station in the film The Betrayal to report that her mother is missing. The mother’s badly burned body is soon found down on the beach near the family’s luxury home.

Skarviken, Västra Kustvägen

…”and every time I paint the same thing. The landscape.”

In a little bay surrounded by meadows, the BBC film team succeeded in a masterly fashion in capturing the Swedish summer idyll. Wallander’s father Povel and his wife Gertrud live beside this beautiful bay, which is the setting for the Löderup of the books. The father loves painting, landscapes with and without capercaillies, something that Wallander has never understood.

In the film Sidetracked, Wallander and his father have an emotional conversation in which his father uses the painting as a metaphor for the passage of life. He reveals why he always paints the same thing. Povel is played by David Warner, who we recognise from Twin Peaks.

Lievägen, Glemmingebro

In one of the houses in this street lives Jurina, who is a badly burned victim in the film The Arsonist.

Glemmingevägen, Glemmingebro

Exterior and interior of the eatery Asian Corner in the British film A lesson in Love.

Plogvägen, Glemmingebro

The home of Boman, who is one of those who does not agree with the release of the former arsonist Tommy in the film The Arsonist.

Knappsdalavägen, Glemmingebro

The location of Reine’s kiosk in the film The Arsonist. An arsonist in Skåne has served his sentence and is released. But he is not welcome in this community and the kiosk owner will not even sell him cigarettes. The same night, the kiosk is set alight, with the owner inside.

Mossbystrand

When Linda was small, Kurt used to take her to Mossbystrand. In the book Firewall, Linda tells Kurt that she is joining the police. Close to the beach is a house that Wallander looks at but does not buy.

In the book The Dogs of Riga, a raft with two dead men comes ashore here. In the book The Pyramid, a light aircraft crashes nearby. Kurt walks his dog along the beach in the British film The Troubled Man.

Svarte

Two fourteen year old boys mistreat a twelve year old boy to death for no reason in the book The Fifth Woman. On Kustvägen, Kurt finally buys the house by the sea that he has dreamt of for so long.

Kronovall manor

The venue where son in law Hans’ father Håkan von Enke celebrates his birthday in the film The Troubled Man.

Ge-Ma Livs, Stationsvägen Köpingebro

At the rear of the store, eight year old Ella and grocer Victor meet for the first time in the film Missing.

Västra Vemmenhög church

The exciting climax of the film The Courier is played out in Västra Vemmenhög church. The present church with its characteristic grey stone tower was built in 1868 to replace a church from the 13th century.

Hammar

Hammar, which lies on the coast road between Ystad and Simrishamn, was the meeting place for some role-playing young people in the book One Step Behind. They were supposed to continue to Hagestad nature reserve, but were murdered before they could get there. In the film Before the Frost, Linda and her friend Anna picnic with friends up on the hill. The outing ends with some differences of opinion.

The peaceful slopes are in strong contrast to the insane act in the film Firewall where a taxi driver is stabbed to death in his car. There is a wonderful view from the slopes of Hammar across the sea and the landscape. This area is a nature reserve and is popular among hang gliders and parasailers.

Ale's Stones and Kåseberga

Ale’s stones is one of Sweden’s most popular destinations and Wallander’s favourite spot when he needed to think undisturbed. In the book Before the Frost, Linda also chooses this place to think about her friend Anna’s disappearance. Wallander surprises the prosecutor Anette Brolin with a picnic right next to the stone ship in the film Faceless Killers.

A man who has ridden his motorcycle over the drop is found dead on the beach in the film The Courier. In the films with Kenneth Branagh as Wallander, the upper floor of Kåseberga Café & Bistro is used as Wallander’s office.

Dag Hammarskjölds Backåkra

”There is a stone ring there. An stone ring for reflection, put up some years earlier. It invited loneliness and peace of mind. He sat on a stone and looked out to sea.”

In the book Faceless Killers, Kurt stops at Backåkra to collect himself before his meeting with his father in Löderup. In the book Firewall, the hired killer Fu Cheng fires a shot at Wallander in the Backåkra car park, but misses in the thick fog.

Kuriosa: The image shows former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan when visiting the meditation spot at Dag Hammarskjöld's Backåkra.

Hagestad Nature reserve

In the book One Step Behind, three young people are murdered here while celebrating midsummer clad in 18th century clothes. The murderer buries the bodies in the woods and later digs them up again. When the half-decomposed bodies are found, the murderer has placed them back on the picnic blanket. In the English film One Step Behind, the scene was shot in the woods nearest to the car park.

Löderup

"Then he precisely placed some reddish spots into the capercaillie’s plumage”.

Kurt’s father lives in a whitewashed house outside Löderup. He has his studio in an outhouse, where he paints landscapes with and without capercaillies. In the book The Pyramid, Wallander is given directions by his sister Kristina:

”On the edge of Löderup, said Kristina. First you pass a local shop. Then through an alley of willows. When you get to the end of that, the house is on the left, with a stone wall up to it. It has a black roof and it is very fine.”

The year is 1969 and his father has just moved here – the local shop and the willows may not be here, but there are plenty of fine white houses with black roofs!

Valleberga church

The church was built of limestone in the mid 12th century and is Skåne’s only remaining round church. It is inspired by the shrines on the Danish island of Bornholm. In the film Before the Frost, a van full of explosive is driven up to the church, a bombing attempt aimed at a gay wedding. Linda and colleague Stefan succeed in preventing a bloodbath at the very last moment and the van explodes a short distance from the church.

Ingelstorp Pastafabriken

Wallander and Lone Kjaer, a colleague from the Danish police, arrest the man who calls himself Louise in the Copenhagen Bar in the film One Step Behind. The exterior of the bar was filmed on location in Copenhagen, but Ingelstorp restaurant & pension was used as the interior of the trendy bar.

Brantevik

"She looked as if she was sleeping. But he knew at once that she was dead”.

Wallander fails to protect Isa Edengren, even though he is with her on Barnsö. The serial killer who was also behind her friends’ deaths at the midsummer celebrations had succeeded in tracking down Kurt and Isa. The serial killer despatches her cold bloodedly with one shot. The island of Barnsö in the book One Step Behind is in the East Götaland archipelago and can be reached by boat from Fyrudden.

Kenneth Branagh did not need to travel so far in the role of Kurt Wallander. Film editing in One Step Behind turned the beach at Vårhallarna, the southern harbour of the fishing port of Brantevik and a holiday home at Borrby Strandbad into the idyllic Barnsö

Hotell Svea, Simrishamn

Hotell Svea, Strandvägen 5

 It is not often that Wallander works in the adjacent police district of Simrishamn, but the place is mentioned often both in the books and the films. At Svea hotel, Kurt meets his colleagues from Karlstad in the book Faceless Killers. In the book Sidetracked, he enjoys dinner in Hamnkrogen. He then walks around the harbour while pondering on the case in which the victims have been scalped.

In the book The Man Who Smiled, Kurt meets Sofia, who works for his good friend Sten Widén, in a cake shop. Wallander’s father gets into a fight in the liquor store and is arrested by the police.

Sankt Olofsvägen, Vitaby

In the British film The Troubled Man, Wallander is seen driving northward on the road. The petrol station can be glimpsed.

Kivik market

Kivik market is the largest in Sweden, with about a thousand stalls. Every year about 100,000 people visit the market over three days in July. Mankell chose this sea of people as the place where Wallander and Martinsson, after a wild chase among the visitors and stalls, arrest the two men who killed the couple in the book Faceless Killers.

Brösarps backar

"The fog. It was like a silently creeping predator, he thought.”

It is nine in the evening when the lawyer Gustav Torstensson is driving home from the fictitious Farnholm Castle in south east Skåne in the book The Man Who Smiled. It is dark and foggy. At Brösarp hills there is suddenly a chair with a dummy in the middle of the road. When Torstensson steps out of the car, he is hit on the head. He is dead before his body hit the wet asphalt.

It is easy to imagine this scene in the southern hills where road 9 winds through the rolling landscape between Brösarp and Kivik. From the car park next to the road, it is easy to walk up the hillside and enjoy the view of the Skåne landscape.

Snårestad

A drama of jealousy unfolds at Snårestads Vandrarhem in the film The Priest. A priest is found shot outside the building. It looks like an attempt at a cold blooded execution. While the priest is fighting for his life at the hospital in Ystad, his extramarital love affair is discovered.

Marsvinsholm

"Paralysed he watched as she staggered around the rape field while the fire spluttered and flamed against her body”

The rape field where Dolores burns herself to death in the book Sidetracked is close to the castle of Marsvinsholm. Wallander discovers that Dolores was one of several young women who had fallen victim to international people trafficking. In the film Sidetracked, a 100 hectare rape field near Charlottenlund was chosen for the scene.

On 3 April 1990 there was a brutal robbery of an elderly couple on their farm in Knickarp. This real-life event was the basis for Mankell’s first Wallander book Faceless Killers. Mankell created the fictional town of Lenarp, which he placed in the vicinity of Marsvinsholm.

Nybrostrand

Among the sand dunes near Nybrostrand campsite, a wedding couple and their photographer are murdered in the book One Step Behind. Stefan Lindman and sometimes also Linda Wallander live in a whitewashed Skåne house with a thatched roof in the first films. The house is right on the beach by the scout hut.

It is also in Nybrostrand that some Ystad police colleagues usually have their annual crayfish party. On the beach here, Wallander shoots the criminal Rykoff, who is armed with an automatic weapon, in the book The White Lioness.

Krageholm lake

"Like flapping fireballs, they tried to avoid their suffering by heading towards the lake”.

Henning Mankell usually uses real places in his stories, but in the book Before the Frost he sets the events with the burning swans at Marebo lake. In the film of the same name, the scene was shot beside Krageholm lake. Linda Wallander finds herself in mortal danger when she finds ethnogeographer Birgitta Medberg battered to death by the lake. The murderer is still close by at the time. In the book The Fifth Woman, Wallander encounters a number of brutal murders where the perpetrators themselves are victims.

The character Eugen Blomberg has a particularly painful end in the dark water of Krageholm lake, where suffering is part of the revenge. In the film One Step Behind, a manor house is used as the home of the Edengren family. Wallander finds Isa Edengren unconscious in an outhouse by the manor after a suicide attempt.

Just past Krageholm, estate agent Louise Åkerblom meets her killer in the book The White Lioness. She gets lost while driving on a small road that winds through a wood and then comes out in Sövde. She is forced to stop at a house and ask the way. There she encounters a former KGB officer who kills her with a single shot to the forehead. A few days later, the thief Peter Hansson is in the area to steal farm pumps. To his horror he finds Louise’s body in a well as he is trying to break the pump off

Kadesjö

In the quiet woods by Kadesjö farm, Wallander reveals a secret to his daughter Linda in the book Before the Frost. Wallander uses specific trees in the wood to represent his dead relatives and friends. For Stefan Fredman, the desperate Indian in the book Sidetracked, he chooses a young oak.

Baldringe church

The funeral of Wallander’s murdered colleague Svedberg is held in this late 12th century Romanesque church in the BBC film of One Step Behind. The film team succeeded in capturing the church in the special light that characterises Österlen.

Skåne Tranås

Diligensvägen 32

Joanna Mellberg’s house is here in the British version of The Troubled Man.

Tunbyholm castle

Håkan Von Enke, who later disappears, celebrates here in the British version of The Troubled Man. Interior locations such as guest rooms, the hall and cigar room were used. Exterior views of the park and lake were also filmed.

Kvarnby 115, Borrby

This is the meeting place of the motor cycle gang in the British film A Lesson in Love.

Hammenhögs gästgivargård

Exterior and interior of a nursing home in the British A Lesson in Love.

Fyledalen

"The bloody poles with their spear-like tips had pierced right through the body here and there”.

In the book The Fifth Woman, birdwatcher Holger Eriksson lives on a lonely farm called Avskildheten in Fyledalen. Every evening he goes out to a bird watching tower nearby, a habit that causes his death. The murderer has sabotaged the footbridge that Eriksson must cross on his way to the tower. The planks break and he is bestially speared on poles. In the film The Secret, eleven year old Johannes finds the body here. The forensics expert Nyberg soon discovers that the finding place was not the scene of the murder.

Stefan Fredman, the young murderer in Sidetracked, has a hiding place in an old caravan in Fyledalen. He brings his sister Louise here before going off for his last task, which is to kill Sandin. In the book One Step Behind, there is an exciting chase in the dark in Fyledalen involving two armed men – Wallander and a man who is always one step ahead.