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Paperback Faceless Killers Book

ISBN: 1400031575

ISBN13: 9781400031573

Faceless Killers

(Part of the Kurt Wallander (#1) Series and Wallander (#2) Series)

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ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME - The mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander - From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the first riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series.

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. And as if this didn't present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman's last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have-and in the process, the match that could inflame Sweden's already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments.

Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has peaked his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve.

Customer Reviews

7 customer ratings | 4 reviews

Rated 4 stars
Great series to get into!

I started reading Henning Mankell just recently. I started with some of the later books in the series but wanted to start from book 1. This story was a slow build but got better. The ending happened very fast.

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Rated 5 stars
The Best Wallander Novel: Short and Well Written With an Excellent Plot

This is not a classic novel, nor will Mankell win a Nobel prize for the effort but this is his best novel as a balanced and well written piece of literature. It is probably not quite as entertaining as One Step Behind, a later novel. It is short and well balanced with interesting characters. It is the first novel in the Wallander Swedish police detective series. I thank fellow reviewer Leonard Fleisig for bringing this author...

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Rated 5 stars
One of the best procedurals I've read in YEARS . . .

Inspector Kurt Wallender is a good cop in a small city in the far south of Sweden. As a man, though, he has a wide assortment of problems and failings, from having been left by his wife and being semi-estranged from his daughter, to eating too much and drinking way too much, to feeling left behind as Swedish society changes for the worse. He feels guilty about not visiting his increasing senile father often enough and not...

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Rated 5 stars
Very Strong Debut Novel--Great New Mystery Series!

Now this was a find. Recently, I was reading book reviews in either _Booklist_ or _Library Journal_ and came across a rave for the latest Mankell translation, _One Step Behind_. When my next opportunity to order a few books came around, I put several Mankell titles on the list and _Faceless Killers_ is the first in his Kurt Wallander series. Mankell is a Swedish author and his books are translations and have been hailed...

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