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by: Henning Mankell  List Price: $13.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.40 You Save: $2.60 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 839.7374 EAN: 9781400031573 ISBN: 1400031575 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: January 14, 2003 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: January 14, 2003 Studio: Vintage Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: If you remember with pleasure those dark and gloomy Martin Beck mysteries by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, you'll be glad to plunge into the first of Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallender mysteries to appear in English. Wallender's personal life can occasionally seem more depressing than even a provincial Swedish detective should be asked to bear, but his investigative skills are strictly first rate. And Mankell's story of the brutal murder of an elderly farm couple uncovers an unusual aspect of life in modern Sweden--a streak of fear and prejudice against the many newcomers from Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe who have sought asylum there. Product Description: First in the Kurt Wallander series. It was a senselessly violent crime: 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. And as if this didn’t present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have–and in the process, the match that could inflame Sweden’s already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments. Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has peaked his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Swedish police officer Wallender is a tough cop with many human frailties...Faceless Killers is a mystery book about the investigation of a brutal double murder. Kurt Wallender, a Swedish police officer, is responsible for managing the search for the killer or killers. Recently divorced, with an estranged daughter and a borderline senile father, and a pretty severe drinking problem, Wallender tries to separate his personal struggles from the murder investigation. Author Henning Mankell is a master of the detail. A murder investigation can be a dull, plodding ... Read More Rating: - Good characters and storyI liked the main characters and the story was interesting. However, the last 20% of the book was not as creative and there wasn't any more character development. It seemed like a mad dash at the end to tie up the plot. Rating:  - Not quite satisfactoryI really expected better, but I'm willing to give Mankell the benefit of the doubt. The language and pacing of Faceless Killers was so pedestrian that - for no other reason - I'm moving on without a pause to The Man Who Smiled. I'm moving on and hoping for a less plodding narrative. With any book translated from another language, there's no way to be sure that the voice you hear is the one the author intended. However, my husband, whose grandfather came over from slightly north ... Read More Rating:  - Kurt, Kurt, KurtFACELESS KILLERS (1991) is a crime novel set in Sweden. At this time, many immigrants swarmed into the country without restiction. There were too many to be absorbed and temporary camps housed dozens of nationalities- many from recently freed Eastern Europe. Some abided by legalities for immigrants, but many disappeared and got by as aliens do. This book was translated to English some time ago, but its recent promotion in American bookstores is timely, given our own immigration debacle. This ... Read More Rating:  - Its Hard To Put DownIt's hard to solve the mystery. But, it's even harder to put the book down... Imagine waking up during the middle of the night. You're awakened by a bad dream that tells you something is terribly wrong, awfully strange. You check your house and everything appears to be normal. You notice something peculiar about your neighbor's house- the same neighbor who is your best friend you share tea with every day. Once you enter the house, you wish you never entered. That's exactly what happened ... Read More 
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