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Faceless Killers (Wallander, #1) - Community Reviews back

by Henning Mankell
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The City Of Invention
The City Of Invention rated it 14 years ago
I find a lot of crime fiction almost unreadable. However in Wallander Henning Mankell has created a very credible detective, beset with his own problems including a father who is sinking into senility, while all around him the formerly insular and homogeneous society of rural Sweden is changing unde...
A little tea, a little chat
A little tea, a little chat rated it 19 years ago
Ugh.Maybe this book is dreadfully translated...or maybe it's like Ikea furniture. Mostly you end up with a bunch of bits that don't make sense. It's a popular theory in Australia that Ikea furniture is some sort of revenge upon people who live in sunlight. Maybe Henning Mankell is a plot to get the ...
What I'm reading
What I'm reading rated it 19 years ago
This is the opening novel of Mankell's famed Wallander series. As a reader we are taken to this glauque, gray and a bit depressing town in the south of Sweden. A town where the monotonous lives are more and more disturbed by violent crimes, drug traficking and murders. The double murders of local fa...
Barbara1951
Barbara1951 rated it 56 years ago
I'm glad this isn't the first Mankell I read; I doubt I would have read another. Very fragmented.
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