Despite an increasing tendency to drown his sorrows in alcohol - and pay the price for his indulgences - Wallender remains a skilled investigator with an eye to the vagaries of human behavior that suggest duplicity and a firm grip of the procedures in building a solid case for prosecution. This is the classic case of a talented man in a profession that demands the sacrifice of family relationships. Mankell sticks to a formulaic police procedural, but with the wrenching personal problems the detective must factor into a life dominated by his work. Suddenly, Wallender is directed to focus on the more immediate threat, juggling the new murder, the as-yet unsolved deaths of the farm couple, his father’s dementia, and the consequences of divorce and a long estrangement from his daughter. There is the promise of another killing to come.
When a farmer and his wife are brutally killed, Wallender barely has time to put the investigation in motion when the press releases the farmer’s wife’s dying word: “foreign.” A sleeping giant awakens, igniting the public’s fear of others and the ramifications of global immigration: an anti-immigrant group murders a man in a refugee camp out for a walk, a Somali with nine children. Book review: Henning Mankell's *Faceless Killers*īetween brilliant, intuitive police work and the emotional wreckage of his personal life, detective Kurt Wallender is a man in transition who finds solace in opera but well understands the growing division in his country, accelerated by fear and a world suddenly without boundaries.
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