But after the victims are traced to the Baltic state of Latvia, a country gripped by the upheaval of Soviet disintegration, Major Liepa of the Riga police takes over the investigation. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is heinous.
On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. THE DOGS OF RIGA Second in the Kurt Wallander series. And as if this didn’t present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have–and in the process, the match that could inflame Sweden’s already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments. It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. FACELESS KILLERS First in the Kurt Wallander series. Mystery fans across America are discovering the international bestseller Henning Mankell and his character Kurt Wallander, the veteran Swedish police detective.
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He finally tracks the men down and solves the murder after seven months of painstaking investigation.The first three novels in Henning Manning's Kurt Wallander series are now available in a trade paperback set. The investigation stalls until Wallander makes a connection to two foreigners who were at the bank when Johannes Lövgren was withdrawing money. The money came from the sale of a car, and the son has an alibi for the night of the murder. The son mysteriously paid of a large gambling debt however, he is cleared. When Wallander returns to the Lövgren murders after solving the murder of the Somali refugee, he tracks down the illegitimate son, who looks like a promising suspect. His closest friend on the police force is diagnosed with cancer as well. Wallander's father begins becoming senile, and Wallander has to put him in the hospital for several days and then get a daily helper to come take care of him. Wallander learns that his daughter is dating a Kenyan medical student and considering college, and Wallander and his daughter, too, begin to re-forge a relationship. They slowly edge into a relationship over the course of the novel. Meanwhile, Wallander fails to reconcile with his wife and becomes attracted to the new public prosecutor, a married woman from Stockholm. Wallander, suspicious, follows the ex-policeman and uncovers the murderer, who dies in a high-speed chase. He discovers that a Citroën was involved with the crime, and an ex-policeman reports his Citroën stolen.
Wallander's investigation is sidetracked as he interviews witnesses to find the killers. Wallander is trying to track down Lövgren's mistress and son when a Somali refugee is shot and killed. Meanwhile, Wallander learns that Lövgren secretly had a fortune stashed away and made large payments to his former mistress, the mother of his illegitimate child. However, the information is leaked to the press, and soon white supremacist groups are becoming violent. Maria Lövgren dies at the hospital, and her last word is "foreign," something Wallander tries to keep from the police. Wallander's wife has recently left him, and he's lost touch with his daughter since she tried to commit suicide four years ago. Detective Kurt Wallander is called in to investigate. Johannes has been gruesomely killed, and Maria has been strangled with a noose and is barely alive.
Wallander ultimately brings the killers to justice through painstaking police work.Īs the novel begins, Maria and Johannes Lövgren are found at their rural farm. Meanwhile, he must cope with a leak to the media that the killers were foreign causing a string of anti-refugee violence, including another senseless murder. Wallander must deal with depression following his divorce, his daughter's emotional and physical distance, and his own problems with food and drinking. Faceless Killers is the story of divorced police detective Kurt Wallander's quest to bring to justice the murderers of an elderly farming couple.
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