![]() He eschews the meticulous and the scientific in favour of his hunches, which all too often lead up blind alleys. It could be said that as a policeman, Kurt Wallander, Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell's award winning creation, isn't much cop. We live as if we were in mourning for a lost paradise, he thought. How was he going to learn to live with the new?. ![]() As a policeman, he still lived in another, older world. Iain RobinsonĪ new world had emerged, and he hadn't even noticed it. He is a truth seeker, trying to make sense of his rapidly changing world, his method happens to be detective work, and it is this search that lies at the philosophical heart of the novel. At times Wallander seems too much like the traditional hard-drinking, hard-living, hard-boiled detective of old, but he is more than that. When this limited evidence and its implications leak to the press it stirs right wing activists into action. Wallander investigates a brutal double murder at a remote farmhouse in which the only possible clues are the whispered words of a dying woman and a freshly fed horse. Set in January 1990, in a frozen landscape and against the backdrop of a rapidly changing Europe, this is a bleak novel that deals with the thorny issues of immigration and racial hatred. Faceless Killers is the first of the acclaimed Wallander novels. And to cap it all, his wife has left him and his daughter doesn't speak to him. A new world had emerged, and he hadn't even noticed it.
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