Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Winner of the Sweden's Best Mystery Award and the first installment in the series that inspired the PBS program Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh, Faceless Killers is a razor-sharp, stylishly dark police procedural with searing social commentary that reaches beyond its genre to produce "a superior novel-and a harbinger of great things to come" ( Booklist). Faceless Killers: A Mystery - Ebook written by Henning Mankell. Los Angeles Times Book Review Wonderful Police procedural with personal texture. Library Journal If you haven't read Faceless Killers, you have something to look forward to. Faceless Killers opens with the brutal torture and murder of an elderly farmer and his wife near the city Ystad in southern Sweden. Some features of WorldCat will not be available. Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript. On a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. Översättare: Steven T Murray: It was a senselessly violent crime. With Faceless Killers, Mankell seems to join those worthy ranks. Henning Mankell Dick Hill - It was a senselessly violent crime. Bok-presentation: Faceless Killers Författar-presentation: Henning Mankell: Pocket. Tenacious and levelheaded in his sleuthing, he and his colleagues must contend with a wave of violent xenophobia as they search for the killers. Engelsk utgåva Faceless Killers Av Henning Mankell. His family is falling apart, he's gaining weight, and he drinks too much and sleeps too little. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. In charge of the investigation is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local detective whose personal life is in a shambles. Faceless Killers : Kurt Wallander, Paperback by Mankell, Henning, ISBN 009957182X, ISBN-13 9780099571827, Brand New, Free shipping in the US One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. The only clue is the single word she utters before she dies: "foreign." It turns out that unbeknownst to most, the farmer had amassed a fortune, even though he never gave any indication. Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers (1991) (translated from the Swedish by Steven Murray) Well, SPOILER ALERT, the killers are indeed faceless. A #1 international bestseller: This "exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth" launched the acclaimed Wallander Mysteries and BBC series starring Kenneth Branagh ( Los Angeles Times).Įarly one morning, a small-town farmer discovers that his neighbors have been victims of a brutal attack during the night: An old man has been bludgeoned to death, and his tortured wife lies dying before the farmer's eyes. Two farm inhabitants are brutally murdered.
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