Review: Wallander (S4 E2/3), Sunday 30th May, BBC1

(C) Left Bank Pictures – Photographer: Steffan Hill

Happily, we’re back to the rain-sodden streets of Ystad after last week’s stickily uncomfortable adventure in the heat of South Africa. On his home ground, Kurt seems to be more himself again – gloomy and negative. It doesn’t help that he’s mugged by motorbike thugs, then called out to the home where his father died. But he’s fit enough to collect his grand-daughter from school and tell her a joke about an elephant (which we’re sure wouldn’t work in Swedish).

AA Dhand’s Streets Of Darkness optioned for TV

I’m a bit late on this one but when I was reading The Guardian yesterday, I came across an article that compared a new novel – AA Dhand’s Streets Of Darkness – to, among other things, to Luther and The Wire. When someone does that you have to sit up and take notice, and that’s exactly what I did, because a later in the article it explained that the novel has been picked up by a production company for TV.