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). One frozen January morning at 5am, Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. As if this didn’t present enough problems for Ystad police inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last. On a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer was bludgeoned to death, his wife left to die with a noose around her neck. Tenacious and levelheaded in his sleuthing, he and his colleagues must contend with a wave of violent xenophobia as they search for the killers. Faceless Killers - Faceless Killers audiobook, by Henning Mankell. Start by marking Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander, 1) as Want to Read: Want to Read saving. His family is falling apart, he's gaining weight, and he drinks too much and sleeps too little. In charge of the investigation is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local detective whose personal life is in a shambles. The only clue is the single word she utters before she dies: "foreign." On a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer was. 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. Faceless Killers audiobook, by Henning Mankell.
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