#Faceless killers book series#
However, it was not until the third book about Wallander, The White Lioness, that the series about the detective from Ystad became the international bestseller it is today.Īuthor Henning Mankell (born 3 February 1948) is a Swedish crime writer, children's author and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most famous creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. The novel was an immediate national success claiming several awards. In Faceless Killers, an elderly couple are murdered on an isolated farm after being brutally tortured and the woman's final word 'foreign' unleashed a ferociously anti-refugee sentiment in Ystad. But now winter closes its grip on Ystad, and Wallander, his tenacious efforts closely monitored by the tough minded (and disarmingly attractive) district attorney Anette Brolin, must forget his trouble, and throw himself into a battle against time and xenophobia. He works tirelessly, eats badly and drinks the nights away in a lonely, neglected flat. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, even his ageing father barely tolerates him. Kurt Wallander is a senior police officer at Ystad, a small town in the wind-lashed Swedish province of Skåne. When this is leaked to the press, racial hatred is unleashed.
The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, victims of violence beyond reason. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. One frozen January Morning at 5 am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he expects is a routine call out. The action of the novel takes place in Sweden, an aspect which made the novel even more interesting. I just finished reading Faceless Killers by: Henning Mankell I found it to be a very entertaining detective novel.
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