There are other scenes of violence and death but they're similarly handled. The build up of dramatic tension produced more effect than any number of gory details. I did think that I was going to find the description of the initial crime scene too gruesome for my taste, but it was handled with sensitivity. 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.
#HENNING MANKELL FACELESS KILLERS SERIES#
He died in 2015.Summary: The first book in the Kurt Wallander series has a good plot and characterisation - it's a real page-turner. During his life, Mankell divided his time between Sweden and Mozambique, where he was artistic director of the Teatro Avenida in Maputo.
His Kurt Wallander mysteries have been adapted into a PBS television series starring Kenneth Branagh. He was the first winner of the Ripper Award and also received the Glass Key and the Crime Writers' Association Golden Dagger, among other awards. Mankell's novels have been translated into forty-five languages and have sold more than forty million copies worldwide. Henning Mankell is the internatinally acclaimed, bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander novels. "Intelligent, moving and topical, this is a thriller of the very best kind." - The Times (London) "A well-crafted police procedural, the story moves along at a brisk pace and comes to an exciting climax." - St. "An exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth and suspense." - Los Angeles Times "An especially satisfying crime novel, like those of such past masters as Georges Simenon, Nicholas Freeling, and Sweden's own Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo." - The Wall Street Journal 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. 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. 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. 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. "An especially satisfying crime novel."-"The Wall Street Journal."īook Synopsis The mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander - From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the first riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series. About the Book From the internationally bestselling mystery writer comes a crime novel featuring the tenacious, levelheaded, opera-loving detective, Inspector Kurt Wallander.
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