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<v Speaker 1>Hello, and welcome to the WBZ book Club. I'm Jordan Rich.

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<v Speaker 1>I really love the Swedish murder mysteries and the fictional

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<v Speaker 1>police officers who have been brought to life to solve mysteries.

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<v Speaker 1>There are so many fans of Kurt Wallander. I'm one

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<v Speaker 1>of them, and I recently re read the first book

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<v Speaker 1>by Henning Mankell called Faceless Killers, where we are introduced

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<v Speaker 1>to Kurt Wallander, and what a story it is. A

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<v Speaker 1>brutal double murder occurs in a remote Swedish farmhouse. The

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<v Speaker 1>husband and wife are bludgeoned in tortured. The wife survives

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<v Speaker 1>long enough to utter one word foreign, which could be

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<v Speaker 1>the big lead in solving the crime, but also stokes

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<v Speaker 1>the anti immigrant movement growing in Sweden at that time

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<v Speaker 1>in the early nineteen nineties. In the book, we meet

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<v Speaker 1>Kurt for the first time. His wife and daughter have

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<v Speaker 1>basically left him. He's dealing with an irascible father with

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<v Speaker 1>early dementia and has to solve a crime before an

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<v Speaker 1>angry community erupts. A great character study and a pretty

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<v Speaker 1>good mystery too. The first of the Wallander series, Faceless

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<v Speaker 1>Killers by Henning Mankel. The Book Club WBZ Boston's news

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