All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Aisling Walsh, ranked

Kurt Wallander must battle his own demons as he works to solve a series of bizarre crimes in southern Sweden. Inspector Kurt Wallander is a disillusioned everyman who struggles against a rising tide of violence in the seemingly sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in beautiful southern Sweden.

Sue Trinder, a 20-year-old thief, is involved in an intricate plot to deceive a wealthy heiress named Maud Lilley out of her inheritance. Mrs. Sucksby, who has taken care of Sue since she was orphaned, urges her to assist conman Richard Rivers in his scheme to elope with Maud, commit her to an asylum, and steal her fortune. However, Sue’s plans are disrupted when she falls in love with Maud. As their relationship blossoms, the two women are forced apart, leading to further unexpected twists in the story.

The film is set in 1912, and follows the events of a single evening on which the wealthy Birling family is holding a dinner party to celebrate the engagement of their daughter, Sheila, to Gerald Croft. The festivities are then interrupted by a visit from what is taken to be a policeman, Inspector Goole, who is investigating the recent suicide of a local young woman named Eva Smith.

Maud, a grandmother in her 80s living with Alzheimer’s disease, relies on sticky notes to get through the day as her memory slowly deteriorates. One day her best friend, another elderly woman named Elizabeth, fails to meet her as promised. She is forced to investigate on her own as her memory flashes back to the mystery of another disappearance: that of her elder sister, Sukey, 70 years earlier.