Wallander searches for Lövgren’s mistress and illegitimate son. While steering clear of the media storm, Wallander discovers that Johannes Lövgren secretly held a huge fortune, which he drew from to make payouts to his former lover, with whom he had a child. A number of white supremacist groups take the national stage and demand stricter immigration policies in Sweden. Maria dies in her hospital bed, after uttering the word “foreign.” An unknown listener leaks her last word to the media, which quickly leads to unfounded allegations that the killers were immigrants. Johannes is found slaughtered, and Maria is found with a tight rope around her neck, in critical condition. He is called on to solve the case of the murders of Maria and Johannes Lövgren, a couple found at their farm after placing a desperate call to police. While extremely depressed and alcoholic, Wallander hopes to rekindle his relationship with his daughter, who has grown progressively distant ever since she attempted suicide several years before.
The novel begins in the wake of Wallander’s divorce. Wallander finds that the brutal murders may have been perpetrated by foreigners the case, as it unravels, makes an implicit commentary on the relationships between Sweden’s immigration policies, the epidemic of racism, and Swedish nationalism. While Wallander’s personal life flounders after a recent divorce, he strives to find the killers of a well-respected elderly couple who owned a local farm. It is the first book in the Wallander series, named after its recurring protagonist, a middle-aged detective based in Ystad, Sweden named Kurt Wallander. Faceless Killers is a 1991 crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell.
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