About this title: Another mesmerising and brilliant mystery from Sweden's renowned crime writer. It is February, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive a call to the Ystad police station. A dinghy has washed ashore, carrying a hideous cargo: two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead. The dead men were Latvian criminals, and this time Wallander will unwittingly become involved in the affairs of the nation so close to Sweden, yet still emerging from behind the Iron Curtain. When another murder is committed, Wallander agrees to travel to Riga to help solve the crimes. There he finds himself ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781400031528ISBN:1400031524
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Kurt Wallander Mysteries (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781860468391ISBN:186046839X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781860469596ISBN:1860469590
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780099535287ISBN:0099535289
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 2004-04-01
ISBN-13:9781400031528ISBN:1400031524
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781400031528ISBN:1400031524
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Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press, London
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781860468391ISBN:186046839X
Description: Very Good + 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 326pp. Very good clean copy-sl. marking to leaf edge and v. sl. bumping/fraying to corners of cover-some sl. edge creasing w/ jacket protector. read more
Binding: Audiobook CD
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780786165391ISBN:0786165391
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Once-listened. Both CDs and containers in excellent condition. 9 CDs. Kurt Wallander Mysteries (Audio). Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First UK edition
Binding: Paperback--trade
Publisher: Harvill Press,, London, England:
Date Published: 2001.
ISBN-13:9781860468391ISBN:186046839X
Description: Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 326, stiff wraps. A fine, clean, neat first edition large format paperback with minimal shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. read more
Binding: Spoken Word Compact Disc
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Date Published: 2006-12-01
ISBN-13:9780786161324ISBN:0786161329
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Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780786161324ISBN:0786161329
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"Extremely riveting mystery, where Wallander ends up behind the iron curtain just as the cold war is ending. Lots of guns, shooting, intrigue, and Wallander, a fellow from a much more permissive country,is just as puzzled by the strange inner workings as we are today, years later. It kind of turns Wallander into an action hero, which is very much out of character for him, but very gripping."
"Another good Wallander mystery. This one is much more international intrigue and espionage type, than local crime, and it just shows Kurt up as a man not suited to such endeavors. But, because he becomes emotionally invested in a woman, he is motivated to give it his best shot, which proves to be good enough.
Kurt is such a sad, lonely man. He brings out every feminine and maternal instinct I posess and makes me want to take care of him.
There was one detail that made the sequence of events seem out of place from the first book. He is still driving his dilapidated old Puegot, which it says he replaced with a Nissan in the first novel of the series. Maybe they are not intended to be chronological?"
"Iread this because I enjoyed the PBS Wallander films. But it was a disappointment. Writing flat and colorless, perhaps because of translation, perhaps to be in keeping with the landscape, physical and political, of 1991 Riga, Latvia. I lost all interest in the mystery and spent most of my time wondering why anyone wanted Wallander in Riga (ostensibly to help track down the murder of a major in the Latvian police, but all he ever did was watch other people do things, get driven around and then "write up his notes"). Characterization so thin that the big "bang" of the plot -- which of the 2 Latvian colonels is the bad guy?! -- meant nothing to me, as they were pretty indistinguishable. And.....
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... Wallander gets it wrong. AND he is saved by a "deus ex machina" ending. So, again: why do we think he's a great detective? At best, he's just a lucky one!"
"Maybe 3-1/2 stars for me for the only reason of the subject matter. I was prepared to keep reading of the Sweden I love in the previous Wallander book, but this one takes place in Latvia. It also had a lot of political background that I was unfamiliar with, making it a little hard to follow for me. But I still love the melancholy, whiskey drinking, soooo human Wallander. And I loved the scene at the end as he described those chasing him as "dogs". Very well written in my opinion."
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