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A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. However, they remain tantalisingly, terrifyingly One Step Behind the lethal progress of a killer Wallander would have to suppose was deranged if his methods were not so meticulous and his victims so clinically targeted. Forced to dig more deeply than he would have wanted into the personal life of one of his colleagues, Wallander’s investigation reveals something none of his team could ever have imagined. An unknown killer, seen by no one, is on the loose, and the police’s only lead is a photograph of three dead young people in costume. The Ystad police station, meanwhile, is experiencing a summer lull, indeed Inspector Wallander is at last at liberty to attend to albeit reluctantly his deteriorating health, but his peace of mind is shattered when one of his colleagues is murdered. The murderer, then, carefully photographs the grisly tableau. His approach is careful his aim is perfect three bullets, three corpses. The hidden watcher soon brings their performance to an end. In the still sunlit, Scandanavian dusk, they don costumes joyfully to enact or so it appears to an unseen observer a kind of masque. It is Midsummer’s Eve, three young friends gather in a wood. He and his wife, narrator Susie Breck, live in Michigan.’ In addition to narrating, he has both acted and written for the theater. Dick Hill, named a ”Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine, is one of the most awarded narrators in the business, having earned three Audie Awards and numerous Earphones Awards. Wallander’s introspection and self doubt make him compellingly real, and his efforts to find out what happened to those men on the life raft makes for riveting reading.” Publishers Weekly Henning Mankell, born in a village in northern Sweden in 1948, divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he works as the director of Teatro Avenida. The plot is satisfyingly seamy and Wallander is, as always, discombobulated and astute.” Los Angeles Times ”Mankell’s intense, accomplished mystery explores one man’s struggle to find truth and justice in a society increasingly bereft of either… Thinking his work done, Wallander slips into the routine once more, until he is called suddenly to Riga and plunged into an alien world in which shadows are everywhere, everything is watched, and old regimes will do anything to stay alive. But after the victims are traced to the Baltic state of Latvia, a country gripped by the upheaval of Soviet disintegration, Major Liepa of the Riga police takes over the investigation. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is heinous. No separate player needed, no CDs, no downloads just press play! ‘On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. An all in one format, the player and content are combined in one 2 ounce unit and it comes with everything you need to start listening immediately. Playaway is the easiest way to listen to a book on the go.

Faceless Killers is a razor sharp, stylishly dark combination of police procedural and searing social commentary that reaches beyond its genre to produce ‘a superior novel and a harbinger of great things to come’ Booklist. Tenacious and levelheaded in his sleuthing, he and his colleagues must contend with a wave of violent xenophobia as they search for the killers. His family is falling apart, he’s gaining weight, he drinks too much and sleeps too little. The only clue is the single word she utters before she dies: ‘foreign.’ In charge of the investigation is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local detective whose personal life is in a shambles.

Taut and atmospheric, this winner of Sweden’s Best Mystery Award is a gripping mystery in the classic detective tradition, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as ‘an exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth and suspense.’ Early one morning, a small town farmer discovers that his neighbors have been victims of a brutal attack during the night: An old man has been bludgeoned to death, and his tortured wife lies dying before the farmer’s eyes. Faceless Killers marks the ‘brilliant US debut’ Library Journal of Henning Mankell’s highly successful Kurt Wallander detective series.

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