Having read that this Swedish author had just published the last of his mystery novels featuring Kurt Wallender, I began the series with the first novel featuring him, hoping to find an author similar to Maj Sjowall/Per Wahloo and Stieg Larsson. I will definitely want to continue reading the Wallender books. However, having read this book, the Larsson trilogy, and currently being in the middle of the new book, Hypnotist, by Lars Kepler, may result in my losing all interest in ever visiting Sweden despite my Scandinavian ancestry. What a scary bunch of folks! Although this first novel is twenty years old, the themes in the more recent bunch of Swedish bestsellers are already there – a stifling society and anti-immigrant prejudice feature in Faceless killers, and the gloomy weather is almost a character as well. 284 pp.
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