But he provides essential information only at the last minute, which makes the solution feel more like an appendix than a conclusion. Publication date 2003 Topics Police - Sweden - Fiction, Large type books, Police, Race relations, Sweden - Race. Police Inspector Ystad Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last words, his only tangible clue, are foreign. Faceless killers by Mankell, Henning, 1948-2015. On a cold night on a remote farm in Sweden, an elderly farmer was slashed to death, his wife dead with a noose around her neck.
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Mankell is clearly a skilled writer, and his portrait of Wallender (who periodically slides beneath respectability) is effective. Faceless Killers marks the brilliant US debut (Library Journal) of Henning Mankell’s highly successful Kurt Wallander detective series. Faceless Killers is the first novel in the Kurt Wallander series by author Henning Mankell. However, a leak to the press complicates the investigation by arousing anti-immigrant feelings, some of which are expressed in anonymous threats. Faceless Killers opens with the brutal torture and murder of an elderly farmer and his wife near the city Ystad in southern Sweden. Wallender puts those clues on the back burner when he learns that Johannes, ostensibly a simple farmer, had a secret life involving wealth and connections unknown to his wife. Faceless Killers, a 1991 novel and the first in the Kurt Wallander series, delves right into Mankell's favorite pet peeve: the changing political and social landscape of Sweden and in particular the influx of immigration and asylum seekers allowed into Sweden seemingly without barriers. Rydberg, a police force old-timer, says the noose's unusual knot and the word foreigner, which Maria uttered before she died, are important. Such consolations can't help him absorb the scene at the Lovgren farm, where elderly Johannes Lovgren has been brutally beaten and stabbed to death and where his wife, Maria, is found barely alive with a noose around her neck. This is a writer who manages to convey massive talent and 'Faceless Killers' is an incredible debut novel from writer who sadly is no longer with us. He writes so assuredly and poetically that the result is sublime.
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Since his wife walked out on him, Kurt Wallender, a middle-aged cop in the small town of Lenarp, has drowned his sorrows in opera and far too much liquor. Henning Mankell Faceless Killers Mass Market Paperback 25 January 2011 by Henning Mankell (Author) 1,365 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 376.00 2 New from 376.00 Paperback 16.39 1 Used from 15.09 10 New from 16. As an introduction to 'Nordic noir', you could miss out, by not reading Henning Mankell. The sentences capture the essence of your mental picture of the Scandanavian landscape in winter: bleak, crisp, minimal, and without anything unnecessary.
In his first appearance in English, Swedish bestselling author Mankell combines thriller-quality entertainment with a depiction of anti-foreigner prejudice in Sweden, painted here as a very chilly place indeed. You don’t often see crime novels discussed for their prose, but a special mention has to be made for Henning Mankell (and his translator) in Faceless Killers.
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