The Danish media theorist Anne Marit Waade explores in this timely study the phenomenon of media tourism, using tourism in the footsteps of Inspector Kurt Wallander as her example. The character of Wallander was invented in 1991 by the bestselling Swedish author Henning Mankell, one of the most successful authors of Nordic crime novels in recent decades, and further developed until 2009. The literary original has been translated and become successful in many countries including the UK, the US and Germany. The books were also adapted into several different TV series in Sweden (1994–2007, with Rolf Lassgård as Wallander, and 2004–2010, with Krister Henriksson) and in the UK (2008–2010, with Kenneth Branagh).