yeah i love dogs of rigait was the first wallander novel i read i can understand why they skipped that in the first series there's no point in them saying hey watch this brand new tv series about a swedish detective oops he's off to latvia now and i understand why they skipped the white lioness because of the africa scenes and i find it really boring i just wish they'd done faceless killers last year so that they could fill in wallander's background for viewers and establish rydberg as his mentor plus they completely ignored linda's suicide attempt so she just comes across as a whinging emo brat instead of having a deep reason for her fractured relationship with kurt i'm really worried about they'll do with the man who smiled it's my favourite of the novels and i can't help but think of the huge chunks they'll cut out of it