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Last broadcast on Sun, 3 Jul 2011, 19:05 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
This month's World Book Club comes from the church of St Mary Magdalene in Woodstock, England.
Harriett Gilbert talks to Swedish superstar Henning Mankell about Faceless Killers, the first novel in his globally acclaimed series featuring Inspector Kurt Wallander.
In it, an elderly farm couple is brutally murdered and the only clue is the wife's uttering of the word "foreign" before she dies. Wallander must find the killers before anger towards foreigners boils over.
Hear about - and from - Wallander's female admirers around the globe all apparently queuing up to marry him, and about how Mankell plants deliberate errors - one in each novel - that no-one has ever spotted.
Watch: Henning Mankell on why he became a writer
Coming Up: Hisham Matar
Have you read In the Country of Men? World Book Club is giving you the chance to ask Libyan author Hisham Matar anything you want about his book. Send him your questions now.
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Sat 2 Jul 201111:05
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Sat 2 Jul 201123:05
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Sun 3 Jul 201103:05
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Sun 3 Jul 201119:05
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