When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he. The investigation stalls until Wallander makes a connection to two foreigners who were at the bank when Johannes Lövgren was withdrawing money. One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. 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. Stars Rolf Lassgrd Sven Wollter ke Jrnfalk See production, box office & company info Add to Watchlist 3 User reviews Episodes 4 Top-rated Sun, S1.E1 Del 1 An elderly couple is found murdered on a farm. 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. Crime Mystery Thriller A farmer discovers that his neighbors have been murdered. 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.
WALLANDER FACELESS KILLERS SERIES
Winner of the Sweden’s Best Mystery Award and the first installment in the series that inspired the PBS program Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh, Faceless Killers is a razor-sharp, stylishly dark police procedural with searing social commentary that reaches beyond its genre to produce “a superior novel - and a harbinger of great things to come” (Booklist).Faceless Killers is the story of divorced police detective Kurt Wallander's quest to bring to justice the murderers of an elderly farming couple. Tenacious and levelheaded in his sleuthing, he and his colleagues must contend with a wave of violent xenophobia as they search for the killers. His family is falling apart, he’s gaining weight, and he drinks too much and sleeps too little. In charge of the investigation is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local detective whose personal life is in a shambles. The only clue is the single word she utters before she dies: “foreign.” A #1 international bestseller: This “exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth” launched the acclaimed Wallander Mysteries and BBC series starring Kenneth Branagh (Los Angeles Times).Įarly one morning, a small-town farmer discovers that his neighbors have been victims of a brutal attack during the night: An old man has been bludgeoned to death, and his tortured wife lies dying before the farmer’s eyes.
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