![]() Yes, you might find more enjoyable things to read in the vast world of pop literature - but don't kill yourself trying. Wallander himself is the reason these novels are so good, and Mankell makes sure we get plenty of him. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Title: Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander Mystery). Over the course of several novels, the embattled cop has to contend with divorce, a father with Alzheimer's, a daughter up to God only knows what, the dissolution of various friendships, the onset of diabetes, and, always, his own half-assed machismo and notoriously short temper. Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander Mystery). What I do know is that it's damned interesting to see how Wallander is affected by the cases he deals with, and how he simultaneously copes with all the other vicissitudes of life. ![]() Not a habitual reader of police stories, I don't know if the way in which Mankell delineates the actual procedures used by Wallander and his cronies is especially well done, although reviewers the world over have little else besides good things to say about it, and it works for me. The serial killer who executes his victims with a tomahawk, the cyber-criminals who are hacking their way to global chaos, the racist conspirators killing non-Swedish refugees these antagonists and their crimes are just an excuse to enter, not too shallowly, the life and work of our friend Kurt Wallander. Dick's work is mentioned here because there's a similarity of tone within the Wallander stories: Seldom have depression, human foibles, and general quotidian misery been so authentically evoked in popular fiction. Ciphers, flotsam from the fall of the Iron Curtain washed up on Sweden’s all-too-welcoming shores. Dick's science fiction was about Star Wars: not really. DecemPeter Berard Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers (1991) (translated from the Swedish by Steven Murray) Well, SPOILER ALERT, the killers are indeed faceless. Police procedurals, these kinds of novels are called, but these books are about police procedure the way Philip K. Wallander, a senior detective with the Ystad Police Department, is the focus of a series of international bestsellers by Swedish author Henning Mankell. And that's where Kurt Wallander comes in. Further, some of these mysterious murders will take place in and around a certain midsize city in southern Sweden. ![]() And that's where the police detectives come in. The reason for or perpetrators of these murders, then, will be a mystery. And some of the murders are going to be premeditated: by a cunning serial killer, by someone wronged and vengeful, or maybe by a dangerous cartel out to increase its range of power. In the third novel, it is implied that Sadako's curse has transcended the limits of her reality and infected multiple universes (some digital simulations and some real), depopulating whole worlds.Sweden is popularly known, in part, for its abundance of suicides, but that doesn't mean it's innocent of murder. Ringu is based on a series of novels which follow a different canon than the films (which itself is divided, like Halloween, into multiple canons). Mere minutes after the first video is uploaded we see it's already been viewed over 6,000 times.īut none of this compares to the novel, Loop. ![]() Kayako, Sadako's tape is uploaded onto the internet and is copied to numerous videos across the web. Angela and Arlene awaken in the basement, where Lucky, who has been beaten and tied to a chair, informs them that their captor told her that he will free Angela and Arlene if they kill her with a hammer. In Rasen, Sadako's curse spreads to a diary, which later on, is confirmed to be adapted into a movie, and that, too, will be cursed. After massacring a gathering of six people, the madman breaks into Angelas house, and chloroforms her, Lucky, and Arlene. RELATED: 'The Ring' and 'The Grudge' Crossover in New Japanese Horror Trailer But there are also moments where Sadako elects to murder millions of people at once. Throughout the Ringu films, Sadako kills several people who dare watch her tape with a mere stare. The plot of Ringu is simple: you watch Sadako's cursed video tape and you die. Sadako Yamamura has the highest body count of any killer in horror history, and it isn't even a close competition. ![]()
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