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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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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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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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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