And looking toward the future with profound uncertainty, he will have no choice but to come face-to-face with his most intractable adversary: himself. Desperate to live up to the hope that a new granddaughter represents, he is continually haunted by his past. Negligent of his health, he's become convinced that, having turned sixty, he is on the threshold of senility. But the results hint at elaborate Cold War espionage activities that seem inextricably confounding, even to Wallander, who, in any case, is troubled in more personal ways as well. And so, with his inimitable disregard for normal procedure, Wallander is soon interfering in matters that are not his responsibility, making promises he won't keep, telling lies when it suits him - and getting results. Faceless Killers - Chapter 12 Summary & Analysis Henning Mankell This Study Guide consists of approximately 36 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Faceless Killers. Black as He's Painted (1974) or Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers (1990/1997). But von Enke is his daughter's future father-in-law. To bring this conversation back to the plot structures that inform crime. It has nothing to do with Wallander - officially.
The investigation into his disappearance falls under the jurisdiction of the Stockholm police. The first episode of three, 'Faceless Killers', investigates the slaying of an elderly couple at a remote farmhouse. There is no doubt these are character driven mysteries and Kenneth Branagh is again up to the task brilliantly. On a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. walking with Wallander who is sometimes more important to the plot than the crime. Maria dies in her hospital bed, after uttering the word foreign. Johannes is found slaughtered, and Maria is found with a tight rope around her neck, in critical condition.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 March 2020. 1.0 out of 5 stars badly written or translated, terrible plot, boring. The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell's brilliant, brooding detective, Kurt Wallander. He is called on to solve the case of the murders of Maria and Johannes Lövgren, a couple found at their farm after placing a desperate call to police. Buy Faceless Killers: Kurt Wallander (Kurt Wallander, 1) by Mankell, Henning from Amazons Fiction Books Store.
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