Faceless Killers
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 306
- ISBN-13
- 9781860468223
- Type
- novel
About this book
Faceless Killers opens the Kurt Wallander series in 1991, introducing the overweight, diabetic, divorced detective Henning Mankell built as the genre's anti-hero. It's followed by The Dogs of Riga, and its investigation into a brutal farmhouse murder sets the template for the melancholy, socially engaged procedural that founded Scandinavian noir.
Key facts about Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell wrote Faceless Killers, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1991. The book has 306 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781860468223 to find the main one.
Faceless Killers is book 1 of 11 in the Kurt Wallander series. The series has 11 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Henning Mankell writes Joel Gustafson and Sofia as separate series. Those series sit on our young adult and nordic noir shelves. Meanwhile, After the Fire is the latest published Henning Mankell book on file, from 2015.
About Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell was a Swedish author widely credited as one of the founding figures of the Scandinavian noir crime wave that reshaped international crime fiction from the 1990s onward. See every Henning Mankell book in order.
Its place in Kurt Wallander
Faceless Killers is book 1 in the Kurt Wallander series. It is followed by The Dogs of Riga. See the full Kurt Wallander reading order.
Kurt Wallander is a middle-aged detective in the small Swedish town of Ystad, and Henning Mankell built him, deliberately, as the anti-hero of the genre he helped invent: overweight, diabetic, divorced, depressive, and quietly appalled by the racism and social fracture he sees creeping into a Sweden he no longer fully recognises. Mankell used each investigation -- into organised crime, far-right violence, trafficking, political conspiracy -- as a lens on late-20th-century Swedish anxiety about immigration, the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781860468223