Wallander series.
In a remote house in Lunnarp, an old farmer Johannes Lovgren is tormented to death, his wife Maria is also severely injured. She dies in the hospital, the only word she manages to say is „foreign”. Kurt Wallander, a sour, middle-aged, charismatic inspector with a troubled private life, and a group of his colleagues work on the case. Despite of the efforts on the part of the police, the word leaks out and cause unwanted media attention and triggers racial and anti-immigrant clashes: a refugee camp is invaded, then a Somali immigrant, walking peacefully on the street, is killed with a shotgun. In the meanwhile it turns out that Lovgren was a rich man (his father had his business with the Nazis during the second world war), he also kept a lover on whom he spend heaps of money. He just recently made a cash withdrawal and the money has disappeared…
Faceless Killers won the very first Glass Key Award in 1992, one year after its first publication.
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