#FACELESS KILLERS BY HENNING MANKELL SERIES#

My love affair with the opera loving, coffee drinking Detective has begun and I look forward to starting book two, The Dogs of Riga. Teamed up with Veteran Detective Rydberg, they slowly but surely work towards catching the killers, while drinking an awful lot of coffee!įirst published in 1990, it has hardly dated – Wallander’s thoughts on the onset of a new era in policing and the changes approaching in Sweden ring eerily true with the benefit of hindsight. Edition: 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed. Wallander is a fantastic anti-hero, pessimistic, divorced, a lover of Opera and whisky with a belligerent father and an AWOL daughter. Faceless killers / Henning Mankell translated from the Swedish by Steven T. The small police force at Ystad have to rely on sketchy leads, a lack of evidence and what I think will become Wallander’s amazing gut instinct to try and solve the crime. When this is leaked to the press, it unleashes a tide of racism. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath.Īn old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason. One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. In Faceless Killers we meet Inspector Kurt Wallander of the Ystad Police Department for the first time. I could not hold my head up and proclaim myself a fan of crime fiction when I hadn’t dabbled my toes in the Wallander phenomenon.

#FACELESS KILLERS BY HENNING MANKELL SERIES#

I decided to start at the beginning and see what all this Wallander fuss was about. Murray - translator Narrated by: Dick Hill Series Kurt Wallander, Book 1 Critic Reviews. Henning Mankell, Author, Ebba Segerberg, Translator, trans. When an author has sold over 35 million copies worldwide it can be quite intimidating but worthy of investigation. Audiobook Henning Mankell Henning Mankell Kurt Wallander Series 01 Faceless Killers FACELESS KILLERS / Henning Mankell / Book Review / Brian Lee Durfee (spoiler free) Kurt Wallander Wallander, Final Season: Henning Mankell. As a reader you need to trust the author to take your newly loved characters in an exciting direction whilst savouring the unpredictability of a series. 1 Share LinkedIn Facebook Pinterest Twitter Email Buffer Flipboard More Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell Are you striving to become a better problem solver I love detective stories, and I have mentioned here that reading these kinds of books enable you to become a better problem solver. But it can’t be forced – these relationships need to be naturally formed.

Especially when it’s one with a huge back catalogue. Discovering a new favourite author is a wonderful thing.

Faceless killers by henning mankell