And to cap it all, his wife has left him and his daughter doesn't speak to him.įaceless Killers is the first of the acclaimed Wallander novels. He eschews the meticulous and the scientific in favour of his hunches, which all too often lead up blind alleys.
It could be said that as a policeman, Kurt Wallander, Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell's award winning creation, isn't much cop. We live as if we were in mourning for a lost paradise, he thought. How was he going to learn to live with the new?. As a policeman, he still lived in another, older world. Highly recommended' Observer 'Mankell is in the first division of crime writing' The TimesĪ new world had emerged, and he hadn't even noticed it. 'Mankell is one of the most ingenious crime writers around. But now Wallander must forget his troubles and throw himself into a battle against time and against mounting racial hatred. He works tirelessly, eats badly, and drinks his nights away. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, and even his ageing father barely tolerates him. 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. An 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. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath.
'Wallander is among the very best fictional crimebusters' Daily Telegraph One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. Discover the first novel in the addictive Wallander series.
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