The Dogs of Riga (Wallander #2)
ISBN:
9781860468391 (186046839X)
Publish date: October 18th 2001
Publisher: Harvill Press
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense,
Scandinavian Literature,
Sweden,
Swedish Literature
Series: Kurt Wallander (#2)
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...
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