Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

Faceless Killers is a crime novel by Swedish writer Henning Mankell, and the first in his acclaimed Wallander series. The English translation by Steven T. Murray was published in 1997. In 1992, Faceless Killers won the first ever Glass Key, an award given to crime writers from the Nordic countries.

At once a gripping mystery in the classic detective tradition and an incisive commentary on contemporary society, "Faceless Killers" introduces Swedish Inspector Kurt Wallander, a cop whose personal life is in shambles. Tenacious and levelheaded in his sleuthing, Wallander has to deal with an eruption of antiforeign sentiment as he searches for brutal killers.