Rookie in the ranks

A gritty new series charts the early days of Swedish detective Kurt Wallander

- CAREN CLARK, JUDY EWENS, RICHARD MCCLURE

If you were a fan of the popular BBC series Wallander, starring Sir Kenneth Branagh as the Swedish detective, you won’t want to miss this new Netflix crime drama, with Adam Pålsson as a younger version of dedicated cop Kurt Wallander.

The six-parter, filmed in English, follows the early years of Wallander’s career as he investigates his first big case as a recently graduated police officer. However, the series isn’t strictly speaking a prequel – unlike, say, Endeavour to