Faceless Killers vs Sidetracked

Faceless Killers is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell and the first book in the Kurt Wallander series. Originally published in Swedish in 1991, it follows the Ystad police inspector as he investigates the brutal killing of an elderly farming couple in rural Skåne. The case unfolds alongside Wallander's family difficulties and public hostility toward immigrants, establishing the serie...

Sidetracked is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell featuring police inspector Kurt Wallander. First published in Swedish in 1995, it follows Wallander and his colleagues as they investigate a sequence of ritualized killings while also confronting the death of a young woman who sets herself on fire. Set in and around Ystad, the book combines a serial-murder investigation with Mankell's...