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The Night of Fear (#2 Hugh Collier) by Moray Dalton (Dec/Jan 25)
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Feb 20, 2012
AC
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I ran across a reference to Mankell from someone on GR who said that crime-writing afficionados really like him.... but then, when I read some of the other GR reviews, I nearly tossed this one in the bucket. I'm glad I didn't! This is a first-rate -- a REALLY first-rate piece of genre writing.
It's 4.5 stars (maybe 4.75) -- and that because I'm getting more conservative in my old age... but its 4.5 from the five-side, not from the 4+ side...
Wallander is a tough, realistic, angst-ridden policeman ...more
It's 4.5 stars (maybe 4.75) -- and that because I'm getting more conservative in my old age... but its 4.5 from the five-side, not from the 4+ side...
Wallander is a tough, realistic, angst-ridden policeman ...more
Two elderly people living next door to friends they've had coffee with every day for the last 40 years wake up one night and hear a scream for help. The man goes over to their friends' home to find a veritable bloodbath and calls the police. Assigned to the the call is Kurt Wallender, and he discovers that the woman is still alive and before she dies, she says only one word: foreign. As Wallender gets more into the case, he realizes that he is going to have to play this very carefully amid risin
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I can't help but wonder if I would have enjoyed this book without Kenneth Branagh's careworn face in my mind's eye. Faceless Killers is a grim story – you wouldn't expect a cheery romp to be called Faceless Killers, after all – and the voice (whether the translator's or Mankel's) is spare and disengaged. The murders are particularly horrid, the landscape is bleak and growing colder, and so for that matter is Wallander's life. His wife has left him and he doesn't understand why and wants her back
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Excellent book. I felt kindof bad for the detective as his life seemed to be imploding during this case. Story was laid out well with no dragging.
Oct 10, 2010
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First in the Wallander series. Drags and wanders in parts, but promising enough that I plan to read the second book in the series. Always wonder how much is lost in translation.
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