Teamed up with Veteran Detective Rydberg, they slowly but surely work towards catching the killers, while drinking an awful lot of coffee!įirst published in 1990, it has hardly dated – Wallander’s thoughts on the onset of a new era in policing and the changes approaching in Sweden ring eerily true with the benefit of hindsight. Wallander is a fantastic anti-hero, pessimistic, divorced, a lover of Opera and whisky with a belligerent father and an AWOL daughter. The small police force at Ystad have to rely on sketchy leads, a lack of evidence and what I think will become Wallander’s amazing gut instinct to try and solve the crime. When this is leaked to the press, it unleashes a tide of racism. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath.Īn old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason. One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. In Faceless Killers we meet Inspector Kurt Wallander of the Ystad Police Department for the first time. I could not hold my head up and proclaim myself a fan of crime fiction when I hadn’t dabbled my toes in the Wallander phenomenon. I decided to start at the beginning and see what all this Wallander fuss was about. When an author has sold over 35 million copies worldwide it can be quite intimidating but worthy of investigation. As a reader you need to trust the author to take your newly loved characters in an exciting direction whilst savouring the unpredictability of a series. But it can’t be forced – these relationships need to be naturally formed. Especially when it’s one with a huge back catalogue. 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.Discovering a new favourite author is a wonderful thing. Fredrik Gunnarsson, who played Svartman in the Swedish TV series, had a cameo in this episode. It was first broadcast on 3 January 2010. 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. 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. 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.
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