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Vale of Tears (Bradecote and Catchpoll #5) by Sarah Hawkswood (Sept/Oct 25)
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Vale of Tears (Bradecote and Catchpoll #5) - SPOILER Thread - (Sept/Oct 25)
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You can feel the chilly winter in Skane. A seemingly senseless murder takes place in a remote farmhouse of an elderly couple. Wallander is also dealing with a separation from his wife, estrangement from his daughter, his father going senile as well as attacks by racists on a refugee camp. Another murder adds to his burden as well as all his personal life stress.
The actual murders of the couple is solved by grinding work and Kurt thinking out the box. In the end its all about the money.
The actual murders of the couple is solved by grinding work and Kurt thinking out the box. In the end its all about the money.
My first Wallander, and definitely not my last. I love how terrible his indigestion is, and how he's always tired.
Also I didn’t expect action scenes, and this had action scenes! Pretty nifty! ...more
Also I didn’t expect action scenes, and this had action scenes! Pretty nifty! ...more
A good, fairly enjoyable whodunnit, the first Wallander in the popular series.
Well-written and plotted, the book, despite the contemporary Swedish problems and the personal problems of the protagonist and his colleagues, or maybe because of them, lacks real heart, and wit, if not irony.
The trumpeted police procedural nature of this book is really no more than in any standard Golden Age mystery - just saying 'Nothing happened in March. Or in April either.' really doesn't mean very much. And somet ...more
Well-written and plotted, the book, despite the contemporary Swedish problems and the personal problems of the protagonist and his colleagues, or maybe because of them, lacks real heart, and wit, if not irony.
The trumpeted police procedural nature of this book is really no more than in any standard Golden Age mystery - just saying 'Nothing happened in March. Or in April either.' really doesn't mean very much. And somet ...more
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell is the first book in the Kurt Wallander series. Wallander is a Swedish Police Inspector and the book jumps right into a brutal crime within the first few pages. Wallander leads the investigation and the path it takes leads to secrets from the victim’s past, refugee camps, and more crime. It has a very timely feel to it as far as dealing with issues of immigration and refugees and the strong feelings these topics arouse. Wallander is introduced in this first bo
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