Before the Frost

For the Black Crowes album, see Before the Frost...Until the Freeze.

For the film Innan frosten, see Wallander – Innan frosten.

Before the Frost

1st edition
Author	Henning Mankell
Original title	Innan frosten
Translator	Ebba Segerberg
Language	Swedish
Series	Kurt Wallander
Genre	Crime novel
Publisher	Leopard förlag
Publication date	2002
Publication place	Sweden
Published in English	2004
Media type	Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages	388 pp (Eng. hardback trans.)
ISBN	ISBN 1-84343-113-0 (Eng. trans.)
Preceded by	Firewall
Followed by	The Worried Man

Before the Frost (Innan Frosten) is a novel by Swedish crime-writer Henning Mankell.

The main protagonist is Linda Wallander, daughter of Inspector Wallander. The book was to be the first in a three-book series with Linda as the main character.

Kurt Wallander and Stefan Lindman (the protagonist from The Return of the Dancing Master) also feature in the novel.

Adaptations

A feature film adaptation directed by Kjell-Åke Andersson was made in 2004 and released in Swedish cinemas on 14 January 2005. It stars Johanna Sällström as Linda and Krister Henriksson as Kurt. The film also serves as the opening installment of Mankell's Wallander, a series of theatrical and straight-to-video films based on story outlines by Mankell but otherwise unconnected to the novels. Sällström and Henriksson reprise their roles in these films.

A stage adaptation authorised by Mankell was premiered at the Westphalia State Theatre in Paderborn, Germany, in 2006.

External links

• Novel's entry on Wallander fan site