I cani di Riga. Le inchieste del commissario Wallander

رواية بوليسية “قل الحقيقة مثلما هي، فالألم الذي ستسببه ليس أسوأ من الحقيقة ذاتها، عليك أن تقول الحقيقة مثلما هي”. هنينغ مانكل.

Poor old Kurt Wallander. I just want to buy the guy a beer and tell him to quit being so hard on himself. The Swedish police detective isn’t faring much better in the second book of the series than he was in the first. Still lonely after his divorce and worried about his flighty daughter and elderly Leggi tutto

I was looking forward to reading this one because it hadn't been adapted for Kenneth Branagh's Wallander TV series, which I've been a fan of. I suppose I should have wondered instead why they'd skipped it. This one starts off ok, with an intriguing mystery of suited men, dead of gunshot wounds, adri Leggi tutto

I enjoyed the first Wallander book and this one starts off promising but it ultimately fizzles. The set up rapidly takes us through some standard police procedural but after a few reveals it switches focus to a new, seemingly unrelated crime. Wallander is promptly sent to Riga in Latvia and for much Leggi tutto

معمای کارآگاهیش چنگی به دل نمی‌زد و بعضی از سوالات مهم هم بی‌جواب می‌موند، ولی نکته‌ی جالب‌تر از موضوع پلیسی شرح زندگی و مناسبات سیاسی و اجتماعی کشور لتونی در دوره‌ی فروپاشی شوروی بود که البته اون هم از دید یه نویسنده‌ی غربی روایت شده و خدا می‌دونه تا چه حد منطبق با واقعیته. یه نکته‌ی از اون هم جالب Leggi tutto

I gave this three stars and that seems to be about right, though I will read more in this series featuring everyday provincial Swedish detective Kurt Wallender, a kind of dour and dumpy but somehow likeable guy. He's Detective Everyman--middle-aged, just dumped by his wife, estranged for his flighty Leggi tutto