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The faceless killers7/4/2023 ![]() 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. For many fans of Scandinavian crime fiction, this is the novel that kick started the Nordic noir subgenre when it was published in 1991 in Sweden as Mrdare utan ansikte. He works tirelessly, eats badly and drinks the nights away in a lonely, neglected flat. 135 0 Today, the Folio Society has launched a special edition of Faceless Killers the first Wallander novel written by Swedish author Henning Mankell. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, even his ageing father barely tolerates him. Kurt Wallander is a senior police officer at Ystad, a small town in the wind-lashed Swedish province of Skane. ![]() When this is leaked to the press, racial hatred is unleashed. ![]() The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. ![]() An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, victims of violence beyond reason. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. “One frozen January Morning at 5 am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he expects is a routine call out. ![]()
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