Faceless killers henning mankell series#

Emerging briefly from unconsciousness, Maria Lövgren is able to give the police just one word, ‘foreign’, as a clue to the identity of her assailants there’s precious little material evidence, and no apparent motive for the brutal home invasion.

It opens with the discovery of a vicious attack on the Lövgrens, an elderly farming couple, which has left the husband dead and the wife fighting for her life.

He died in 2015.Henning Mankell was a Swedish writer and dramatist (he died in 2015) whose most well-known legacy is the sequence of crime novels, much in the Sjöwall & Wahlöö ‘Martin Beck’ mode, which feature the detective Kurt Wallander (whom, from TV, we now know to look very much like Kenneth Branagh).įaceless Killers ( Mördare unte ansikte, 1991, translated by Steven T Murray) is Wallander’s debut. During his life, Mankell divided his time between Sweden and Mozambique, where he was artistic director of the Teatro Avenida in Maputo.

Faceless killers henning mankell series#

His Kurt Wallander mysteries have been adapted into a PBS television series starring Kenneth Branagh. He was the first winner of the Ripper Award and also received the Glass Key and the Crime Writers' Association Golden Dagger, among other awards.

Mankell's novels have been translated into forty-five languages and have sold more than forty million copies worldwide. Henning Mankell is the internatinally acclaimed, bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander novels. 'Intelligent, moving and topical, this is a thriller of the very best kind.' - The Times (London) 'A well-crafted police procedural, the story moves along at a brisk pace and comes to an exciting climax.' - St. 'An exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth and suspense.' - Los Angeles Times 'An especially satisfying crime novel, like those of such past masters as Georges Simenon, Nicholas Freeling, and Sweden's own Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo.' - The Wall Street Journal He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve. Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has peaked his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. And as if this didn't present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman's last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have-and in the process, the match that could inflame Sweden'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. 'An especially satisfying crime novel.'-'The Wall Street Journal.'īook Synopsis The mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander - From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the first riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series. About the Book From the internationally bestselling mystery writer comes a crime novel featuring the tenacious, levelheaded, opera-loving detective, Inspector Kurt Wallander.