A brutal murder has taken place in a small Swedish town. Before she died, one of the victims managed to utter a single word: “foreigner.” Inspector Wallander, who is investigating the case, will have to contend not only with the killer’s sinister shadow, but also with the chaos in his own life…

Henning Mankell He is known for his series of crime novels from the 1990s featuring Inspector Kurt Wallander of Ystad. *Faceless Killers* is the first book in the series.