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. Sweden had turned into a country where people more than anything else seemed to be afraid of being bothered. Fredrik Gunnarsson, who played Svartman in the Swedish TV series, had a cameo in this episode. Faceless Killers: A Mystery (Henning Mankell) p.10 Global Archive Voiced Books Online Free Wallander was instantly annoyed by the man’s uncooperative attitude. It was first broadcast on 3 January 2010. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside hs shattered body, victims of violence beyond reason. The sentences capture the essence of your mental picture of the Scandanavian landscape in winter: bleak, crisp, minimal, and without anything unnecessary. 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. Henning Mankell Faceless Killers Mass Market Paperback 25 January 2011 by Henning Mankell (Author) 1,365 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 376.00 2 New from 376.00 Paperback 16.39 1 Used from 15.09 10 New from 16. You don’t often see crime novels discussed for their prose, but a special mention has to be made for Henning Mankell (and his translator) in Faceless Killers. 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. Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers (1991) (translated from the Swedish by Steven Murray) Well, SPOILER ALERT, the killers are indeed faceless. 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. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. In 1992, Faceless Killers won the first ever Glass Key award, given to crime writers from the Nordic countries. One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. 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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