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Faceless killers : a mystery / Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray.

by Mankell, Henning, 1948-2015.

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New Press, 1997.

Police -- Sweden -- Fiction.

Ystad (Sweden) -- Fiction.

Mankell, Henning, 1948-2015. Kurt Wallander mysteries ; 1.

9781400031573 (2003 Vintage trade pbk.)

9780307742858 (2011 Vintage Crime pbk.)

Mördare utan ansikte. English

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Translation of: Mördare utan ansikte.

Translation of: Mördare utan ansikte.

Translated from the Swedish.

A thought provoking series, relying more on intellect than action. The attention to detail and realism are key appeals. "One frozen January Morning at 5 am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he expects is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, victims of violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When this is leaked to the press, racial hatred is unleashed. Kurt Wallander is a senior police officer at Ystad, a small town in the wind-lashed Swedish province of Skane. His life is a shambles. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, even his ageing father barely tolerates him. He works tirelessly, eats badly and drinks the nights away in a lonely, neglected flat. But now winter closes its grip on Ystad, and Wallander, his tenacious efforts closely monitored by the tough minded (and disarmingly attractive) district attorney Anette Brolin, must forget his trouble, and throw himself into a battle against time and xenophobia."--Fantastic Fiction website.

Swedish fiction -- Translations into English.

Mystery fiction.

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