Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the WBZ book Club. I'm Jordan Rich.
Speaker 1: I really love the Swedish murder mysteries and the fictional
Speaker 1: police officers who have been brought to life to solve mysteries.
Speaker 1: There are so many fans of Kurt Wallander. I'm one
Speaker 1: of them, and I recently re read the first book
Speaker 1: by Henning Mankell called Faceless Killers, where we are introduced
Speaker 1: to Kurt Wallander, and what a story it is. A
Speaker 1: brutal double murder occurs in a remote Swedish farmhouse. The
Speaker 1: husband and wife are bludgeoned in tortured. The wife survives
Speaker 1: long enough to utter one word foreign, which could be
Speaker 1: the big lead in solving the crime, but also stokes
Speaker 1: the anti immigrant movement growing in Sweden at that time
Speaker 1: in the early nineteen nineties. In the book, we meet
Speaker 1: Kurt for the first time. His wife and daughter have
Speaker 1: basically left him. He's dealing with an irascible father with
Speaker 1: early dementia and has to solve a crime before an
Speaker 1: angry community erupts. A great character study and a pretty
Speaker 1: good mystery too. The first of the Wallander series, Faceless
Speaker 1: Killers by Henning Mankel. The Book Club WBZ Boston's news
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