![]() ![]() It is the story of Wallander’s investigation into the Lövgren murders. On its most basic level, it is a detective novel. In some ways, Faceless Killers is three novels wrapped into one. I know the men and woman Wallander met in his investigation–the hairdresser and the mechanic, the ex-wife and the estranged daughter, the tired detective and the aging farmer. Though the place was new and strange, the people were familiar. I love it when novels introduce me to new places and incite my curiosity about them. I opened up my browser and found images of Ystad and the surrounding land. Often while reading this novel, I set down the book and opened up my map app. Wallander spent a lot of time on country roads, driving from Ystad, where he lived, to Malmö and Kristianstad, to Lund to Trelleborg. But it is a theme of the novel that society is transforming in a way that brings big city crime to small communities. Dotted with small towns and peopled by farmers, artists, and shop owners, Skåne seems an unlikely setting for a bloody double murder. As described by Mankell, this is a rural land, cold, windy, and lonely. One of the charms of this book was its setting in Sweden, especially in the southern region of Skåne. First published in Sweden in 1991, Faceless Killers was translated into English by Steven T. As always to my nature, I prefer to read books before viewing film and television adaptations, and I prefer to read them in the order they appeared in print. ![]() I stopped watching the show and picked up Faceless Killers. I watched four or five episodes, before I realized the character was based on detective novels. I first learned of Wallander when I watched a series based on him on Netflix, starring Kenneth Branagh. Faceless Killers is the first of eleven novels featuring his most famouse character, Kurt Wallander, a detective in the Ystad Police Department. Henning Mankell (1948-2015) was a Swedish writer who specialized in crime novels. ![]() Her dying words gave the only clue to the identity of the murderers: “Foreigners.” Maria, still living, was tied to a chair with a noose around her throat. As he entered the Lövgren’s bedroom, the viciousness of the attack struck him cold. Kurt Wallander, the acting chief of the Ystad Police, answered the call. When he looked through his neighbor’s window, the gruesome sight he saw sent him running back to his own farm to call the police. The neighbor, Johannes Lövgren, was dead, and his wife, Maria, was dying. At his wife’s insistence, he donned his clothing and went to investigate. Though he had no idea what woke him, looking through the window, he realized there was something amiss at his neighbor’s house. The novel has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 7, read by the English actor David Warner, who plays Wallander's father in the British television adaptation of Wallander.Early one winter morning, an elderly farmer woke up to an eerie silence. Fredrik Gunnarsson, who played Svartman in the Swedish TV series, had a cameo in this episode. It was first broadcast on 3 January 2010. Wallander is played by Rolf Lassgård.įaceless Killers has also been adapted into a 90-minute television episode for the BBC's Wallander series starring Kenneth Branagh as Wallander. The novel was adapted into a four-episode television miniseries, Wallander, by the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television in 1994. The story focuses on Sweden's liberal attitude regarding immigration, and explores themes of racism and national identity. But his conclusion leads to several racially-motivated attacks after the information is leaked to the press. He thinks that Mrs Lovgren's last word is accurate, and that the murderers are foreign. Rydberg has been examining the noose around Mrs Lovgren's neck and "has never seen one like it before". Maria Lovgren is taken to hospital, but dies anyway. Inspector Kurt Wallander, a forty-two-year-old Ystad police detective, is put on the case with his team: Rydberg, an aging detective with rheumatism Martinsson, a 29-year-old rookie Naslund, a thirty-year veteran Svedberg, a balding, forty-something-year-old detective Hansson and Peters. ![]() Inside an almost isolated Skåne farmhouse in Lunnarp, an old man, Johannes Lövgren, is tortured to death and his wife Maria savagely beaten and left for dead with a noose around her neck. In 1992, Faceless Killers won the first ever Glass Key award, given to crime writers from the Nordic countries. Faceless Killers ( Swedish: Mördare utan ansikte) is a 1991 crime novel by the Swedish writer Henning Mankell, and the first in his acclaimed Wallander series. ![]()
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