Faceless killers
Subtitle: a mystery
By: Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray.
Contributors: Murray, Steven T.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Police -- Sweden -- Fiction; Sweden -- Fiction
Work titles: Mördare utan ansikte.
Description: The murder of a farming couple in Sweden unleashes a wave of xenophobia when it is learned that the woman's dying words were "foreigner." The case is given to Inspector Kurt Wallender, a lover of opera and booze. Part crime story, part look at the attitude of Swedes to immigrants.