Kurt Wallander · Book 1
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.
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