Also, American readers may find odd Mankell's bundling of his upright anti-racism message with broad notions of what constitutes acceptable social control. But he provides essential information only at the last minute, which makes the solution feel more like an appendix than a conclusion.
Mankell is clearly a skilled writer, and his portrait of Wallender (who periodically slides beneath respectability) is effective. However, a leak to the press complicates the investigation by arousing anti-immigrant feelings, some of which are expressed in anonymous threats. Wallender puts those clues on the back burner when he learns that Johannes, ostensibly a simple farmer, had a secret life involving wealth and connections unknown to his wife. Rydberg, a police force old-timer, says the noose's unusual knot and the word foreigner, which Maria uttered before she died, are important. Besides being a good book, this is notable as Mankell’s introduction of his famous detective Kurt Wallander.
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Such consolations can't help him absorb the scene at the Lovgren farm, where elderly Johannes Lovgren has been brutally beaten and stabbed to death and where his wife, Maria, is found barely alive with a noose around her neck. Writer Henning Mankell first published Faceless Killers in 1991 and an English edition, translated by Steven T. Faceless Killers Mass Market Paperback Januby Henning Mankell (Author) 2,412 ratings Book 1 of 10: Kurt Wallander Mystery Kindle 10.44 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 16.96 14 Used from 12.97 1 New from 44.44 3 Collectible from 50. Since his wife walked out on him, Kurt Wallender, a middle-aged cop in the small town of Lenarp, has drowned his sorrows in opera and far too much liquor. A 1 international bestseller: This exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth launched the acclaimed Wallander Mysteries and BBC series starring Kenneth Branagh ( Los Angeles Times ). In his first appearance in English, Swedish bestselling author Mankell combines thriller-quality entertainment with a depiction of anti-foreigner prejudice in Sweden, painted here as a very chilly place indeed.
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