http://bookblog.scandinavianbooks.com/faceless-killers-by-henning-mankell/ Books reviewed Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:40:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://bookblog.scandinavianbooks.com/faceless-killers-by-henning-mankell/comment-page-1/#comment-119 dark poetry « Scandinavian Crime Fiction Fri, 15 May 2009 23:58:26 +0000 http://bookblog.scandinavianbooks.com/?p=137#comment-119 [...] Peter reviews Henning Mankell’s Faceless Killers – and also finds some genealogic roots in the Martin Beck series. Since Faceless Killers is the first book in the Kurt Wallander series,  readers are provided with some background information about the main characters. Kurt Wallander is gritty and determined, newly separated from his wife and somewhat estranged from his daughter. He often drinks too much, and he has problems dealing with the interim prosecutor, who is an attractive young woman sent down from Stockholm. Perhaps it is the fact that she is pretty that is bothersome? Also, he has a somewhat strange and remomte relationship to his father, an ageing artist, who is showing the first signs of senility.” He thinks its only fault is that it ends too soon. [...] [...] Peter reviews Henning Mankell’s Faceless Killers – and also finds some genealogic roots in the Martin Beck series. Since Faceless Killers is the first book in the Kurt Wallander series,  readers are provided with some background information about the main characters. Kurt Wallander is gritty and determined, newly separated from his wife and somewhat estranged from his daughter. He often drinks too much, and he has problems dealing with the interim prosecutor, who is an attractive young woman sent down from Stockholm. Perhaps it is the fact that she is pretty that is bothersome? Also, he has a somewhat strange and remomte relationship to his father, an ageing artist, who is showing the first signs of senility.” He thinks its only fault is that it ends too soon. [...]

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