Henning Mankell does indeed do that for me with his Inspector Kurt Wallander.This is the first entry in Henning Mankell's series featuring Swedish detective Kurt Wallander.
The police officers are barely differentiated (Wallander himself is the only one with any character traits to speak of, and he comes across as kind of a schmuck), and the book cries out for description and emotion. Given that my previous meeting with Wallander came in the form of the final novella of the series, I am struck by how much more gloomy and self-pitying the character seems to be in this first case, noticeably disposed to wallowing.
by Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell All detectives have to have their personality quirks and personal problems to keep the story interesting.
The police officers are barely differentiated (Wallander himself is the only one with any character traits to speak of, and he comes across as kind of a schmuck), and the book cries out for description and emotion.
What does Wallander mean by "the age of the noose"? May I humbly ask why?
In it's best moments this one echoes of Sjöwall-Wahlöö's Henning Mankell was an internationally known Swedish crime writer, children's author and playwright.
At the very end of Faceless Killers, as Kurt Wallander reflects on the "senseless violence" he has seen, he thinks about "the new era, which demanded a different kind of policeman. Faceless Killers marked the debut appearance of the dyspeptic Ystad detective, Kurt Wallander, and although the Swedish language version was written in 1991, the English translation did not follow until 1997. Wow, didn't realize it's been this long since I last re-read the series... where did the time go?
No Comments Yet Compared to the average American murder mysteries of today, there doesn’t seem to be as much gore or gore just for the sake of shock.
When we first meet him, Wallander has a boatload of personal problems: he is recently divorced; he's estranged from his daughter; he's drinking too much; he has a lousy diet, and his father is showing signs of senility.it was 15 pages before the end before anyone in the police department thought to follow the most obvious trail. Child builds tension to unbearable extremes, then blows it out in sharply choreographed violence, even if his plot has more...
Just go with it.)
Or else we'll take over") from somebody who's willing to set fire to a refugee camp barracks and gun down a visiting Somali to show how serious he is. Lonely, living on junk food and blighted by lack of sleep, Wallander's family dilemmas seem to occupy as much of his focus as the brutal double murder of elderly Johannes and Maria Lövgrens in Lunnarp, a "village where life flows along the creek without vigour or intent".
But how long will it take his plunge into ethnic hatred to give him the answers he needs?
Read Frederik Skagen for Christ's sake. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been.
Fear will be on the rise" [p. 280].
I flew through this first in the Kurt Wallander series, but the writing was squarely in the spectrum of unremarkable to outright you've-got-to-be-kidding-me.
I thoroughly enjoyed the tension and the investigation details and frustration. I'm glad I didn't! This series has been the inspiration for several other police procedurals; many people say it …
by Start by marking “Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander, #1)” as Want to Read: Given that my previous meeting with Wallander came in the form of the final novella of the series, I am struck by how much more gloomy and self-pitying the character seems to be in this first case, noticeably disposed to wallowing. Mankell writes in a very spare, no-frills way to tell a story that is clear and absorbing. We’d love your help. Reacher walks away without a scratch, telling Bobby that his hospitalized ranch-hands have “quit.” Child twists his increasingly hokey plot into a pretzel when Sloop is found dead and Carmine confesses to killing him.
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Surprised by the news that Johannes Lîvgren was not exactly the colorless chap he appeared, Wallander despairs of finding enough time or energy to kindle a romance with deputy D.A. It seems that Sloop, elder son of a white-trash-turned-oil-rich ranching dynasty, is nearing the end of a prison term for tax evasion, and Carmine, whose body Reacher sees is marked with signs of physical abuse, wants Reacher to be her bodyguard—or, failing that, kill the man in such a way that Carmine can still hold on to her terminally cute six-year-old daughter Ellie.
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(Yes, it had English actors playing Swedes and was filmed in Sweden. by Who would so savagely kill an elderly farming couple in the Swedish town of Lenarp—the husband gruesomely tortured, the wife slowly strangled with a noose tied in an unusual knot—and then step out to the couple's barn to feed their horse? And let's not forget the Norwegians.
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