Moordenaar zonder gezicht

misdaadroman

mass market paperback, 342 pages

Dutch language

Published Nov. 21, 2002 by De Geus.

ISBN:
978-90-445-0210-7
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OCLC Number:
67134668

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3 stars (4 reviews)

Het onderzoek naar de gruwelijke moord op een oud boerenechtpaar op het Zweedse platteland dreigt telkens vast te lopen door tegenwerking van pers en overheidsorganen en door het opkomen van sluimerende racistische krachten.

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reviewed Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (An Inspector Wallander Mystery)

Didn't love it!

2 stars

This is the first book of a series, so maybe they get better, but it wasn't great. The writing is very lazy. There's single sentences that cover things I wanted to know more about, and entire paragraphs where a word or two would've sufficed. There's a lot of casual racism and sexism throughout, which the reader is supposed to understand as problematic, but Wallander often seems to thinks to himself "Huh, that person is racist and/or sexist, but I'd rather not call them out right now." Perhaps the most interesting thing about the book is Wallander's own problems with women and minorities, which as a character he seems to recognize and want to address, but the structure around it isn't good enough to make that meaningful or interesting.