Please note that I gave this book 1.5 stars, but rounded it up to 2 stars on Goodreads.So I have to say that I was overall very disappointed with this look at Kurt Wallander. I started watching the BBC show and liked the character and stories a lot. Besides the same last night and backstory here and...
“To grow old is to live in fear. The dread of something menacing that you felt when you were a child returns when you get old.” The first episode of a sitcom is usually a bit clunky. The joke to exposition ratio is low, and you’ve got all these new people to meet. While Henning Mankell’s Kurt Walla...
bookshelves: mystery-thriller, one-penny-wonder, published-1991, re-read, spring-2012, fradio, paper-read Read from October 22, 2009 to May 14, 2012, read count: 2 Re-read via radio 4x starting 6/4/12--------------------------------He has forgotten something, he knows that for sure when he wakes...
Faceless Killers is the first in the Kurt Wallander series by Henning Mankell. An elderly couple living in a remote farmland with seemingly nothing to their name are brutally murdered. The only clue the detectives have is the dying words of the wife- 'foreigners'. Leaked to the press these words a...
Yet another candidate from the 1001 list! This was an interesting mystery, set in Sweden and has that odd everything is grey and slightly depressing feel to it. This was a good mystery, but not nearly as good as The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - another Swedish, slightly depressing mystery... hmm....
I picked this up because Mankell is hailed as the best writer of these frozen mysteries that have come into vogue after Stieg Larsson hit the big time. Sadly, I left the novel disappointed. The biggest crime, to be honest, is that it's boring. It's just simply boring to watch a policeman follow u...
I would give this 3 1/2 stars if Goodreads allowed it. A crime/mystery/detective story from Sweden. Not as engaging as Stieg Larsson's trilogy, but satisfying nevertheless.
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