Faceless killers book review11/10/2022 ![]() Just before dying the wife says words that sound like “foreigners”. He discovers his neighbour tied up and brutally murdered, and his wife barely clinging to life. A farmer woke early in the morning – sensing that something was wrong because he did not hear his neighbours horse whinny in the night. We meet Kurt Wallander when he is called out to investigate the murder of an elderly couple on an isolated country farm. This is where he has set his Wallander novels and where he still owns a farm outside the town. ![]() ![]() Mankell grew up in Sweden, and lived in the small town of Ystad in the county of Skåne on the southernmost tip of Sweden during the 1980’s. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more it was at that moment I became an author.” I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. Mankell says that “ At the age of six my grandmother taught me to read and write and for me that was a profound experience. He is separated from his wife, has a troubled teenage daughter – and listens to Maria Callas. And Henning Mankell’s detective Kurt Wallander is a guy I want to read more about. I didn’t need the backup book!įaceless Killers is one of the best mystery novels I’ve read. So, looking for a book for a day of sitting in airports and a long plane trip I took it along (with a backup book in my bag) and hoped for the best. #Faceless killers book review series#The Kurt Wallander Mystery series has been recommended to me time and again, and we had sold this series steadily for several years. ![]() Why hadn’t I read Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell until now? I don’t have a good answer. ![]()
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