There is violence in the story but it's not overdone or gratuitous. This is essentially a story by a man about men and the women are there as supporting cast. The women in the story are less well developed, as in all the Wallander novels that I've read. His father is an eccentric bordering on senility both are marvellous characters as is Rydberg, Wallander's partner in the investigation. He's a fallible man trying to do his best under pressure. He lives in untidy and neglected flat, drinks too much and his diet is on the dreadful side of poor. His wife has left him, his daughter won't speak to him and even his elderly father struggles to exchange more than a few words with him. I closed the book with a real glow of enjoyment.įew characters arrive on the scene as fully-formed as Kurt Wallander. The ending was ingenious and in keeping with all that had gone before. I found myself reading into the early hours of the morning just to find out what happened. There are enough twists and turns, red herrings and dead ends to keep you turning the pages. This is where the story is based on the patient accumulation of evidence and elimination of suspects. The plot is excellent, particularly if you're a fan of police-procedural novels. This book had me hooked right from the beginning. When the press get hold of this there's a tide of racial hatred, and Wallander is left with a double murder to solve as well as the responsibility for the protection of an unknown number of asylum seekers. All that Maria Lövgren can tell the investigators before she too dies is that the killers were foreign. Instead he finds that the elderly farmer, Johannes Lövgren, has been brutally killed and his wife is near death. When Inspector Kurt Wallander is summoned to an isolated farmhouse one freezing January morning he thinks that it will be nothing more than a routine call-out. Not recommended to buy as there are problems with the editing of the book which make it an annoying read in places. The novel has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 7, read by the English actor David Warner, who plays Wallander's father in the British television adaptation of Wallander.Summary: The first book in the Kurt Wallander series has a good plot and characterisation - it's a real page-turner. Fredrik Gunnarsson, who played Svartman in the Swedish TV series, had a cameo in this episode. It was first broadcast on 3 January 2010. Wallander is played by Rolf Lassgård.įaceless Killers has also been adapted into a 90-minute television episode for the BBC's Wallander series starring Kenneth Branagh as Wallander. The novel was adapted into a four-episode television miniseries, Wallander, by the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television in 1994. The story focuses on Sweden's liberal attitude regarding immigration, and explores themes of racism and national identity. But his conclusion leads to several racially-motivated attacks after the information is leaked to the press. He thinks that Mrs Lovgren's last word is accurate, and that the murderers are foreign. Rydberg has been examining the noose around Mrs Lovgren's neck and "has never seen one like it before". Maria Lovgren is taken to hospital, but dies anyway. Inspector Kurt Wallander, a forty-two-year-old Ystad police detective, is put on the case with his team: Rydberg, an aging detective with rheumatism Martinsson, a 29-year-old rookie Naslund, a thirty-year veteran Svedberg, a balding, forty-something-year-old detective Hansson and Peters. Inside an almost isolated Skåne farmhouse in Lunnarp, an old man, Johannes Lövgren, is tortured to death and his wife Maria savagely beaten and left for dead with a noose around her neck. In 1992, Faceless Killers won the first ever Glass Key award, given to crime writers from the Nordic countries. Faceless Killers ( Swedish: Mördare utan ansikte) is a 1991 crime novel by the Swedish writer Henning Mankell, and the first in his acclaimed Wallander series.
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