11/4/2022 0 Comments Faceless killers book review![]() ![]() ![]() His wife has left him and wants a divorce. #Faceless killers book review seriesWallander and his team work doggedly to solve both crimes while Wallander himself struggles with a series of personal calamities. But is it in any way related to the first murders? It seems that there is strong anti-immigrant sentiment in Sweden and the refugee's murder may have had its origins in a Nazi faction within the country. Information about the dying woman's final word has leaked, and then a Somali refugee is murdered, seemingly at random, after anonymous phone calls that there will be retribution for the murders of the two elderly Swedes. Wallander assembles his team and they begin to work the case, but soon they are distracted by another murder. The murders occur on a cold night in January and the bleak cold of the Swedish wintry landscape permeates the story. Before she died, the woman uttered the word "Foreigner." Is that a clue to the identity of the killer or killers or was it just a meaningless sound from a dying and delerious woman? ![]() An elderly couple have been brutally murdered in a remote farmhouse. Wallander is a police inspecter in Ystad, Sweden, and in this introductory book, he has a particularly violent and seemingly senseless crime to solve. This book, published in Swedish in 1991 and in English in 1997, is the first in the series featuring Wallander and I will be interested to see how the character changed and grew as the series progressed. In Kurt Wallander, Henning Mankell has created a seriously flawed but ultimately sympathetic character. ![]()
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