Winner of the Sweden’s Best Mystery Award and the first installment in the series that inspired the PBS program Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh, Faceless Killers is a razor-sharp, stylishly dark police procedural with searing social commentary that reaches beyond its genre to produce “a superior novel-and a harbinger of great things to come” ( Booklist). Tenacious and levelheaded in his sleuthing, he and his colleagues must contend with a wave of violent xenophobia as they search for the killers. Henning Mankell The novel begins early one freezing January morning when a farmer named Nystrm discovers that his neighbours Johannes and Maria Lvgren have. Good story Good story and good likeable characters. It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck.
Hadnt come across the author until we started watching Wallender on television following a recommendation from a friend. His family is falling apart, he’s gaining weight, and he drinks too much and sleeps too little. Faceless Killers Really enjoyed this book. Paperback International Edition, January 1, 2011. In charge of the investigation is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local detective whose personal life is in a shambles. Faceless Killers Paperback International Edition, January 1, 2011. Since then Faceless Killers: A Mystery textbook received total rating of 4.3 stars and was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price of 0. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 156584341X and 9781565843417.
The only clue is the single word she utters before she dies: “foreign.” Acknowledged authors Henning, Mankell wrote Faceless Killers: A Mystery comprising 288 pages back in 1997. A #1 international bestseller: This “exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth” launched the acclaimed Wallander Mysteries and BBC series starring Kenneth Branagh ( Los Angeles Times).Įarly one morning, a small-town farmer discovers that his neighbors have been victims of a brutal attack during the night: An old man has been bludgeoned to death, and his tortured wife lies dying before the farmer’s eyes.
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