by Henning Mankell, Dick Hill
Masterful in plot, pace, characters and setting, this is a serious and multi-layered mystery, a study of how some people rise to greatness in danger and under oppression. Inspector Kurt Wallander is a humble hero, given more to mid-life-crisis existential angst than machismo. He’s smart, though, and...
The first half was too slow, but after that what a book! Lots of plot twist, the tension was constant and you never knew who to trust. Very recommended!
I think I prefer Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole to Wallander at this point. They're similar (40-ish, hardboiled, jaded, talented detectives, occasionally funny, divorced, father issues, etc.). Wallander is very straightforward but I feel like I don't know him as well after 2 books. I will read another, but f...
I understand that there's so little crime in Sweden that a mystery writer has to look to redder fields, but the whole Latvian plot is so incredibly unbelievable! Why on Earth would Wallander agree to help a bunch of people who repeatedly refuse to tell him what's going on? How could he ever trust t...
I seem finally to have found a type of genre-writing that I get. This is a really fabulous, fabulous book -- better than Faceless Killers (which itself was excellent) -- a mystery set partially in the grim landscape of a decaying factory town in southern Sweden, and partially in the even grimmer se...
This book was AWESOME. It hooked me from almost the first page and I flew through it once I got started. I could barely put it down!! I can't wait to continue with the series...
I enjoyed the book the storyline was interesting although the premise that a Swedish Police Inspector would become effectively a secret agent investigating corruption in Latvia I found rather far fetched - particularly as he seemed to have a pretty flaky reason for doing it and had no official suppo...
Second Wallander book. This is set in the depth of winter, where the sky is low, days are short and the cold just makes you ache. Wallander finds himself a case where two bodies wash on the beach in a lifeboat. Russian mafia hits that made it all the way to Ystad from the sea. Wallander ends up foll...
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