The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue. 'Mankell is one of the most ingenious crime writers around. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason. He works tirelessly, eats badly, and drinks his nights away.īut now Wallander must forget his troubles and throw himself into a battle against time and against mounting racial hatred. 2.1: FACELESS KILLERS - Branaghs Wallander How would you like to stay at Kurts second home from the BBC series Well now you can as the owners, our friends Catarina and Roland, have it. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, and even his ageing father barely tolerates him. In 1992, Faceless Killers won the first ever Glass Key award, given to crime writers from the Nordic countries. On a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer was bludgeoned to death, his wife left. When this is leaked to the press, it unleashes a tide of racism. Faceless Killers ( Swedish: Mrdare utan ansikte) is a 1991 crime novel by the Swedish writer Henning Mankell, and the first in his acclaimed Wallander series. 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, both victims of a violence beyond reason. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. 'Wallander is among the very best fictional crimebusters' Daily TelegraphOne frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. Aptly named Faceless killers, as in the two cases, the Lovrens, and the killings of the Syrian immigrants, the perpetrators are both introduced relatively late in the day. Discover the first novel in the addictive Wallander series.
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