I have read a few of the Swedish authors in the past, but Faceless Killers is the first I have read by this author. Faceless Killers was on OK read for me. Set in the early 90s, the book is a bit dated when it comes to technology. It's not really exciting and there is no real action. I also thi...
Re-read via radio 4x starting 6/4/12--------------------------------He has forgotten something, he knows that for sure when he wakes up.I love Mankell's Wallander and even though I have been reading this series in an all together 'alternative' sequence, it was quite lovely to finally read the openin...
An elderly couple is robbed and brutally murdered and it's up to police inspector Kurt Wallander to find the killer or killers. Can Kurt act on the meager information he has available and solve the case as his private life disintegrates around him?On the heels of reading The Girl with the Dragon Ta...
I ran across a reference to Mankell from someone on GR who said that crime-writing afficionados really like him.... but then, when I read some of the other GR reviews, I nearly tossed this one in the bucket. I'm glad I didn't! This is a first-rate -- a REALLY first-rate piece of genre writing.It's 4...
The first few pages are written from the point of view of an elderly farmer who discovers his neighbours have been brutally attacked. Wallander is called in to investigate. The rest of the book is written from his perspective. Wallander’s perspective is tired and singular. Outside of work he is a pa...
I swear I have read this book before several years ago. I am having Deja vu all over the place yet cannot remember the ending. But it is a fantastic book...I will def. continue on with this series.
Touted as being similar to Stiegg Larsson, I wasn't drawn in as much. It was a good mystery and good characters, but not quite so intricate as Larsson. I have the next two books in the series and will at least read that far.
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