Faceless Killers is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell. It is the first book in the Wallander series, named after its recurring protagonist, a middle-aged detective based in Ystad, Sweden named Kurt Wallander. While Wallander’s personal life flounders after a recent divorce, he strives to find the killers of a well-respected elderly couple who owned a local farm. · The introduction, discussion questions, author biography, and suggested reading list that follow are designed to enhance your group’s reading of Swedish novelist Henning Mankell’s brilliant mystery, Faceless Killers. 1. In what ways is Faceless Killers surprising? What is unusual about its crimes and the manner in which they are solved? Why would Henning Mankell choose to make the Brand: New Press, The. Reviewed in the United States on Janu. Verified Purchase. Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers brings to life Kurt Wallander, a detective in a small town in the south of Sweden who, on a frozen January morning, comes face to face with the grisly murder of an elderly farm couple/5(K).
Who would so savagely kill an elderly farming couple in the Swedish town of Lenarp—the husband gruesomely tortured, the wife slowly strangled with a noose tied in an unusual knot—and then step out to the couple's barn to feed their horse? Inspector Kurt Wallander, battling midlife crisis—his estranged daughter has rarely called him since she lit out from home; his estranged wife greets. The excellent "Faceless Killers" is the first novel Mankell writes in the Wallander series, but read "The Pyramid" first. "The Pryramid" is a prequel collection of short stories and a novel that immediately precedes the first call to the police that opens "Faceless Killers.". Faceless Killers A Mystery. Henning Mankell Steven T. Murray. • 52 Ratings; Henning Mankell's lovably flawed Swedish police inspector Kurt Wallander is one reason! In the first book in Mankell's series, an elderly couple has been murdered on an isolated farm near the tiny village of Ystad. There seems to be no motive for the.
Henning Mankell has books on Goodreads with ratings. Henning Mankell’s most popular book is Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander, #1). Faceless Killers (Swedish: Mördare utan ansikte) is a crime novel by the Swedish writer Henning Mankell, and the first in his acclaimed Wallander series. The English translation by Steven T. Murray was published in In , Faceless Killers won the first ever Glass Key award, given to crime writers from the Nordic countries. Faceless Killers is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell. It is the first book in the Wallander series, named after its recurring protagonist, a middle-aged detective based in Ystad, Sweden named Kurt Wallander. While Wallander’s personal life flounders after a recent divorce, he strives to find the killers of a well-respected.
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