![]() But now winter closes its grip on Ystad, and Wallander, his tenacious efforts closely monitored by the tough minded (and disarmingly attractive) district attorney Anette Brolin, must forget his trouble, and throw himself into a battle against time and xenophobia. He works tirelessly, eats badly and drinks the nights away in a lonely, neglected flat. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, even his ageing father barely tolerates him. Kurt Wallander is a senior police officer at Ystad, a small town in the wind-lashed Swedish province of Skane. It is the first book in the Wallander series, named after its recurring protagonist, a middle-aged detective based in Ystad, Sweden named Kurt Wallander. When this is leaked to the press, racial hatred is unleashed. Faceless Killers is a 1991 crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell. ![]() The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, victims of violence beyond reason. ![]() When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. One frozen January Morning at 5 am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he expects is a routine call out. ![]()
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