Wallander the faceless killers series#

While itвЂ™s the mystery that makesВ a good crimeВ book, I wanted to find a detective whom IВ could careВ about and whose life I invest in from the beginning, as I explore this literary genre. When this last clueВ is leaked to the press, it unleashes racial hatred in the community. Only a few clues give Wallander anything to go on: the knot of a noose tied around the wifeвЂ™s neck, their horse recentlyВ fed and watered in the barn, and a last word uttered by the wife, indicating the killers may be foreign. They are strange victims of violence, considering their peaceful life. The sophisticated cluesВ in Faceless Killers kept me from figuring out what happened to cause the unexplainable murder of an old farmer and his wife inВ SwedenвЂ™s countryside. ThereвЂ™s noВ getting emotionally involved with the suspects or the police force, just wondering who committed the murder and getting swept up in the twists and turns of the clues. TheyвЂ™re an enjoyable change for me from the thought-provoking literary novels I gobble up. Combining compelling insights into the sinister side of modern life with a riveting tale of international intrigue, The White Lioness keeps you on the knife-edge of suspense.I finished the first Kurt Wallander book Faceless Killers this past week, by the popularВ pre-Stieg Larsson Scandinavian crime novelist Henning Mankell.В A new paperback edition is being released this month by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, a publishing house devoted to the best of classic crime novels.В IвЂ™m not a huge detective mystery reader but like the occasional one. The search for the truth behind the killing eventually uncovers an assassination plot, and Wallander soon finds himself in a tangle with both the secret police and a ruthless foreign agent. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, they realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex-and dangerous. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough, the cops catch up with him. The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. THE WHITE LIONESS Third in the Kurt Wallander series. Thinking his work done, Wallander slips into routine once more, until suddenly, he is called to Riga and plunged into an alien world where shadows are everywhere, everything is watched, and old regimes will do anything to stay alive. But after the victims are traced to the Baltic state of Latvia, a country gripped by the upheaval of Soviet disintegration, Major Liepa of the Riga police takes over the investigation. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is heinous. On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. THE DOGS OF RIGA Second in the Kurt Wallander series.

And as if this didnвЂ™t present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying womanвЂ™s last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they haveвЂ“and in the process, the match that could inflame SwedenвЂ™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.

FACELESS KILLERS First in the Kurt Wallander series. Mystery fans across America are discovering the international bestseller Henning Mankell and his character Kurt Wallander, the veteran Swedish police detective.

Wallander the faceless killers series#

The first three novels in Henning Manning's Kurt Wallander series are now available in a trade paperback set.