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by Henning Mankell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Books USA; Reprint edition (Jan 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1400031575
  • ISBN-13: 978-1400031573
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 811,539 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A new world had emerged, and he hadn't even noticed it. As a policeman, he still lived in another, older world. How was he going to learn to live with the new? . . We live as if we were in mourning for a lost paradise, he thought...

It could be said that as a policeman, Kurt Wallander, Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell's award winning creation, isn't much cop. He eschews the meticulous and the scientific in favour of his hunches, which all too often lead up blind alleys. He drinks too much, then drives. He doesn't get enough sleep. And to cap it all, his wife has left him and his daughter doesn't speak to him.

Faceless Killers is the first of the acclaimed Wallander novels. Set in January 1990, in a frozen landscape and against the backdrop of a rapidly changing Europe, this is a bleak novel that deals with the thorny issues of immigration and racial hatred. Wallander investigates a brutal double murder at a remote farmhouse in which the only possible clues are the whispered words of a dying woman and a freshly fed horse. When this limited evidence and its implications leak to the press it stirs right wing activists into action.

At times Wallander seems too much like the traditional hard-drinking, hard-living, hard-boiled detective of old, but he is more than that. He is a truth seeker, trying to make sense of his rapidly changing world, his method happens to be detective work, and it is this search that lies at the philosophical heart of the novel.

--Iain Robinson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Familiar Story, Unfamiliar landscapes, 25 Aug 2002
This review is from: Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallender Mystery) (Paperback)
Faceless Killer is the first of the Kurt Wallander Novels by the Swedish crimewriter Henning Mankell. The book deals with the double murder of an elderly farmer and his wife in a brutal manner which apparently lacks motive. Subsequent investigation leads the hapless detective, Kurt Wallander, on a trail which brings him face to face with the issues surrounding european refugees, immigration and racism.

A suprisingly engaging read considering that the subject matter does not break new ground. The charcter of Wallander is all to familiar from the many other renderings of dishevelled and emotionally disfunctional detectives that we have become familiar with. The beauty of this book lies in its unique setting. Anybody with a passion or familiarity with Scandinavia and Sweden in particular will feel utterly satisfied with Mankell's rendering of the changing moods of the area.

Overall this is a nicely rendered story with a sadly all to familiar lead character and story line but set in a well described and unique setting for it's genre.

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26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Surprise package, 9 Feb 2007
By Scully Bloke (Wiltshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander Mystery) (Mass Market Paperback)
I was bought this book as a Christmas present. I had never heard of the author or the detective who is the main character.

However what an absolute delight. A real story about a detective in a small police force in Sweden. Normally he has to deal with petty crime so when a very violent double murder is uncovered our detective "Kurt Wallander" has a problem on his hands.

What is exceptionally good about this book is the development of the main character Wallander. His wife has left him, his father is on the start of suffering from dimentia and his daughter wont talk to him. This is story of a policeman working laboriously through what small clues there are, managing his private life, yet it is done with a very ydry humour through out the book.

Loved it
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Wallender fan, 7 May 2005
This review is from: Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander Mystery) (Mass Market Paperback)
I have read most of the Kurt Wallender books and I just love them. I hadn't read the reviews and was surprised to find that people seem to find the plots simple. I suppose we all look for different things in our crime books! For me it is the feelings that Wallender goes through in his cases. It is always as if he is drowning in his investigations and blindly trying to reach any sort of grounding to build on. He just seems much more believable than some superhuman detective who forsees everything and will need even more twists and turns from his also superhuman criminal mastermind for the story not to crumble.
I recomend this book, as well as sidetracked, the fifth woman and one step behind especially for those new to Wallander's books!
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good start to the series
I read this book after some of his later ones and was struck by the way that the character of Wallander develops as the books move on. Read more
Published 20 days ago by David

5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping story with a human touch
I've only recently discovered Henning Mankell books after enjoying the transmissions on BBC Four of the Swedish version of the Wallander stories. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Bluebell

5.0 out of 5 stars Swedish Dectective
Recently discovered the BBC4/Swedish version of Wallander which has prompted me to read the books . Excellent a page turner
Published 2 months ago by Edward Thomas

5.0 out of 5 stars "The insecurity in this country is enormous. People are afraid. Especially in farming communities like this one."
Set in Sweden in 1990, Henning Mankell's first Kurt Wallander mystery begins with a dramatic, Raymond Chandler-esque scene. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mary Whipple

4.0 out of 5 stars Meets expectations but check out Arnaldur Indridason for crime writing
I came to Mankells's inspector Wallander series after his excellent Depths and Italian Shoes.

All in all it's very good crime fiction and lives up to the hype. Read more
Published 3 months ago by A. Kelly

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning introduction to Kurt Wallander
My first time with Kurt Wallander and his team and what a ride! The story grips you from the first page and then you're off on a rollercoaster, willing Wallander to put the... Read more
Published 5 months ago by C. A. Kennedy

5.0 out of 5 stars Rebus vs Wallander
If you enjoy Rebus you will love wallander. This series is amazing and I totally recommend it to someone who loves crime novels, nice to see another perspective of detection. Read more
Published 5 months ago by H. E. Taylor

5.0 out of 5 stars A welcome change of scenery
I decided to order the first in the Wallander series after seeing the Wallander on the BBC. I was intrigued by the story and the setting, which is far different to the settings in... Read more
Published 6 months ago by J. Milton

3.0 out of 5 stars Dark and strangely gripping
This book is strangely addictive and quirkily written. There's a lot of telling rather than showing, but somehow here that doesn't matter. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Ms. A. Brooke

5.0 out of 5 stars First Kurt Wallander novel
This is the first of the Kurt Wallander novels and immediately we are given access to the man that is Kurt Wallander. Read more
Published 10 months ago by jo

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