In 1992, Faceless Killers won the first ever Glass Key award, given to crime writers from the Nordic countries.

Inside an almost isolated Skåne farmhouse in Lunnarp, an old man, Johannes Lövgren, is tortured to death and his wife Maria savagely beaten and left for dead with a noose around her neck.

The novel focuses on Sweden's liberal attitude regarding immigration, and explores themes of racism and national identity in the wake of the refugee controversy in Sjöbo and numerous controversial hate crimes, including the growth of skinhead and Neo-Nazi movements, and the rise of the populist New Democracy party.

Fredrik Gunnarsson, who played Svartman in the Swedish TV series, had a cameo in this episode.

Notably, in the episode, the ethnicity of the killers was changed from Yugoslav to Arab, possibly due to the decreased actuality of the Yugoslav wars and in recognition of later refugee currents from the Iraq War, which was notable in Swedish political debate already in the 2000s.