Faceless Killers

Henning Mankell created a character that Kenneth Branagh has made his own in the “Wallender” series on PBS. In this first Wallender crime novel, the spare technique Mankell uses gave rise to the PBS Wallender. As you read through the book you can see the bits and pieces that Branagh and the writers chose to flesh out the TV Kurt Wallender.

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The Girl Who Played With Fire

Stieg Larsson opens the sewer in the prolog with a sadistic sexual scene that features unnamed characters. From there he digs through the pit and into the black hole. In that hole he introduces Lisbeth Salander a woman who appears to be whatever others’ perceptions deem her to be. On the contrary she is someone unto herself with a photographic memory, above and beyond computer skills, wealth secreted in various locations, and an intense desire for revenge.

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