Wallander was adapted from novels about Kurt Wallander.
Kurt Wallander . The protagonist of many mystery novels , set in and around the town of Ystad , 56 km south-east of the city of Malmö , in the southern province of Skåne . Wallander is a British television series adapted from the Swedish novelist Henning Mankell 's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Kenneth Branagh as the eponymous police inspector .