BOKREA 50% Henning Mankell - Faceless Killers (på engelska)

An aging farmer and his wife have been attacked on their isolated farm. When Inspector Kurt Wallander of the Ystad police force arrives, he finds the elderly couple brutally tortured, the husband dead and the wife barely clinging to life. They appear to have little money and no enemies. The only clues are the dying word of the farmer’s wife: “foreign”, and some unusual ligature on a rope that has been used in the crime.

This is the start of the tale told Faceless Killers, by Henning Mankellin Henning Mankell’s first Kurt Wallander detective mystery Faceless Killers. And the result is a well-done, very exciting police procedural.

Since Faceless Killers is the first book in the Kurt Wallander series, readers are provided with some background information about the main characters. Kurt Wallander is gritty and determined, newly separated from his wife and somewhat estranged from his daughter. He often drinks too much, and he has problems dealing with the interim prosecutor, who is an attractive young woman sent down from Stockholm. Perhaps it is the fact that she is pretty that is bothersome? Also, he has a somewhat strange and remomte relationship to his father, an ageing artist, who is showing the first signs of senility.