Kurt Wallander Faceless Killers, Book 1, (Paperback)

from EadieB

I enjoyed this first book in Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander series. I found it to be a page-turner with lots of twists and turns. The characters were well developed and the plot was very clever. It was also a great look at life in Sweden. Wallander reminds me of Rebus, Ian Rankin's chief inspec...

from Lman

Faceless Killers is the first book in this series and, as such, serves as much as an introduction to Kurt Wallander's life and country, as to his abilities in solving crime. Despite Wallander's mess of a life - enabling the usual odious comparisons to another flawed and driven police inspector - ...

from maneekuhi

Well written, prose flows very nicely. Good story with a brisk pace. Not much tension, but enough for a reader to stay interested. It's about the violent murders of an elderly farm couple. No apparent motive, few clues. It appears to be the deed of a foreign born resident or visitor, and when wor...

from lit_chick

After the millennium trilogy, I went looking for another Swedish crime fiction author and found Mankell. Faceless Killers is a quick read with an engaging story line: pure escape for me. This is my first foray into Detective Kurt Wallander, but I'll be back!

from amerynth

Henning Mankell's "Faceless Killers" is really more of a police procedural than a mystery as you really can't solve the crime yourself with the information involved. Set in Sweden, the story focuses on Kurt Wallander, a grizzled police detective attempting to solve the double murder of farmers in...