... A good year anyway. Unlike other Wallander, the action located in Riga and not in Ystad gives more exotic romance and action to rebound but less strength and flavor. A move towards the adventure / spy novel, you lose (some) of what makes the magic of Mankell: painting the daily life of one man, sometimes faced with the extraordinary but deep, terribly ordinary and so similar to all. It has a psychological dimension in this album there, but it is diluted somewhat in the intricacies of the plot. It's definitely better to start with "The Dead of Saint-Jean" or even, regardless of chronology, "The Fifth Woman". That said: Mankell is a great!
