Henning Mankell is the prize-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the Inspector Wallander Mysteries, now dominating bestseller lists throughout Europe. He devotes much of his time to working with Aids charities in Africa, where he is also director of the Teatro Avenida in Maputo.

Steven T. Murray has translated numerous works from the Scandinavian languages, including the Pelle the Conqueror series by Martin Andersen Nexe and three of Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander novels. He is Editor-in-Chief of Fjord Press in Seattle.

ALSO BY HENNING MANKELL

Fiction

The Dogs of Riga

The White Lioness

The Man Who Smiled

Sidetracked

The Fifth Woman

One Step Behind

The Return of the Dancing Master

Before the Frost

Chronicler of the Winds

Depths

Kennedy's Brain

The Eye of the Leopard

Non-fiction /

Die, But the Memory Lives On

Young Adult Fiction

A Bridge to the Stars

Shadows in the Twilight

When the Snow Fell

HENNING MANKELL

Faceless Killers

TRANSLATED FROM THE SWEDISH BY

Steven T. Murray

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Published by Vintage 2009 8 10 9 7

Copyright © Henning Mankell 1991 English translation © Steven T. Murray 1997

Map by Reginald Piggot

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First published with the title Mordare unte ansikte by Ordfronts Forlag Stockholm 1991

First published in Great Britain by the Harvill Press 2000

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