The Pyramid
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 560
- ISBN-13
- 9780753183847
- Type
- collection
About this book
The Pyramid is a story collection in the Kurt Wallander series, published in 1999. Most of its stories are prequels set before Faceless Killers, useful as backstory but readable at any point since they sit outside the main numbered run.
Key facts about The Pyramid
Henning Mankell wrote The Pyramid, a collection on our list. It has been out since 1999. The book has 560 pages.
We list 1 edition of this collection. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780753183847 to find the main one.
The Pyramid is book 9 of 11 in the Kurt Wallander series. The series has 11 published books. However, the series starts with Faceless Killers (1991).
Additionally, Henning Mankell writes Joel Gustafson and Sofia as separate series. Those series sit on our young adult and nordic noir shelves. Meanwhile, After the Fire is the latest published Henning Mankell book on file, from 2015.
About Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell was a Swedish author widely credited as one of the founding figures of the Scandinavian noir crime wave that reshaped international crime fiction from the 1990s onward. See every Henning Mankell book in order.
Its place in Kurt Wallander
The Pyramid is book 9 in the Kurt Wallander series. It follows Firewall. It is followed by An Event in Autumn. See the full Kurt Wallander reading order.
Kurt Wallander is a middle-aged detective in the small Swedish town of Ystad, and Henning Mankell built him, deliberately, as the anti-hero of the genre he helped invent: overweight, diabetic, divorced, depressive, and quietly appalled by the racism and social fracture he sees creeping into a Sweden he no longer fully recognises. Mankell used each investigation -- into organised crime, far-right violence, trafficking, political conspiracy -- as a lens on late-20th-century Swedish anxiety about immigration, the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780753183847