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Like his countrymen Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, Mankell writes mysteries that connect crimes in Sweden to the rest of the world. Faceless Killers (1997), the first of his books about provincial police inspector Kurt Wallender to appear here, involved Turkish immigrants and Eastern European villains. This novel, written in 1993, links the murder of a real estate agent in Wallender's town of Ystad to South Africa, where Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison, and to Russia, where the KGB is busy planning Mandela's fate. Wallender is a classically dour but dedicated policeman whose progress through his cases is a combination of hard slogging and lucky breaks. But several factors render this effort less compelling than its predecessor. The first is the Day of the Jackal syndrome: we know that Mandela wasn't killed by KGB agents or white Afrikaner terrorists, and that knowledge makes the suspense writer's job even harder. Second is the book's length 560 pages is a long haul, even with three exotic settings and dozens of important characters. Third might be Thompson's translation, which unlike Steven T. Murray's work on Faceless Killers often seems excessively deadpan. But Wal

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Author

Mankell, Henning

Publisher

Vintage Uk

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780099464693

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.84 / 5 (10,898 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14